In an isolated castle, students prepare for a life-changing examination. As anticipation builds to a fever pitch, a storm strikes. Trapped within crumbling walls, their academic sanctuary becomes a prison, and minds begin to break.
A young boy, living in rural Greece with his father, has to confront the violent familial tradition on his birthday, the slaughter of a goat. The ritual is unavoidable for the boy in order to become a man, even if his ideals diverge from those of his father’s. Following constant pressure, he runs away and after meeting a mysterious presence he must take a difficult decision.
This film denounces intensive livestock farming by evoking the imprisonment, sadness and resilience of a cow separated from her calf, in a heavy and poignant atmosphere.
An immersive descent into a nightmarish landscape-what fever dreams feel like, not just what they look like. A cinematic adaptation of a night terror: a video collage of vivid imagery, a noxious atmosphere, and disjointed connections stripped of human logic. An apocalyptic fable of a virus from beyond the stars - one that fell from above, only to watch us from the earth. It used what we cherished most to dismantle our world. And now we ask: Did we ever deserve anything better?
A fire ignites, and a boy’s fantasies about a girl dissolve into a haunting reality he can’t escape.
Dan has a gaping hole in his neck that won't heal. Why? He can't remember, nor talk about it. Back in the sinister arena of his childhood, he must find the part of himself he once left behind that prevents him, now an adult, from being whole.
