30th Locarno International Film Festival

The solitude felt by a deeply sensitive woman reveals a contemporary trend of our society. This profoundly human film, although treated in a cold manner, is an invitation to a sharing of opinions.

The morbid rites surrounding the execution of a man condemned to death and perhaps innocent are sure to provoke the viewers to reflect on the death penalty and on a law influenced by social classes.

Through the suffering of the Afrikaans poet and naturalist Eugène Nielen Marais, depicted in a rich and complex style, this film helps the viewers to discover new aspects of human existence in a particular context.