An off-the-wall comedy set in the world of the Bystanders - invisible immortals who watch over their human subjects and intervene in (or interfere with) their lives.
九岁的小男孩米歇尔(乔瑟培·克里斯提亚诺 Giuseppe Cristiano饰)一日在玩耍的时候,无意间发现了地穴里的一个秘密。他惊讶的发现在这口地穴中囚禁着一个与他年纪相仿的金发男孩菲利普(马悌亚·狄·皮耶 Mattia Di Pierro饰),他被铁铐牢牢地锁着,弱小而无助。被震惊了的米歇尔立刻逃回家中,然而在好奇心的驱使下,他又一次前往地穴。他们都是用童话与想像化解着内心的恐惧,慢慢变成了好朋友。米歇尔隐瞒了这个秘密,并在心里做了各种各样的奇异猜想。 一天晚上,米歇尔的家中住进了一位面目可憎的男人。在谈话中,米歇尔听到了一个惊人的秘密。菲利普其实是全村的大人们一同绑架来的,其中也包括自己的父母,米歇尔陷入了巨大的迷惑与恐惧之中。
Aki and Naoko are childhood friends who are drifting apart as adults. Immersed in her family life, Naoko now has a husband and daughter; Aki, on the other hand, remains single and is on leave from work due to a personal crisis. The plot might sound familiar but it has never been told like this. The director Kusano Natsuka stages the interactions through an actors’ table-read and, as the lines are repeated, the scenes gradually develop into on-location conversations. Moreover, she repositions the dramatic peak of the story to the beginning: Aki has murdered Naoko’s daughter.
Structurally inventive, Kusano's daring cinema implements ‘distantiation’ effects to get to the heart of friendship issues at times when life has settled. While the repetitions convey the suffocation of role patterns in both friendship and family, a line left out or added in unsettles and reminds us life can take unexpected turns.
艾利克斯(康斯坦丁·拉朗尼柯 Konstantin Lavronenko 饰)和妻子薇拉(玛利亚·邦妮薇 Maria Bonnevie 饰)带着孩子们来到了位于乡间的老家度假,这里闲适的生活和优美的风景安抚了一家人疲惫的心灵。 正当艾利克斯沉浸在宁静的情绪中时,薇拉告诉丈夫自己怀孕的消息,让艾利克斯震惊的是,薇拉坦陈,腹中孩子并不是艾利克斯的骨肉。在巨大的打击之下,艾利克斯找到了兄弟马克(亚历山大·巴鲁耶夫 Aleksandr Baluev 饰),向他倾吐胸中的愤懑,在两人的商讨之中,艾利克斯决定让妻子堕胎。不幸的是,薇拉死在了手术台上,艾利克斯的世界崩溃了,他的悲伤和愤怒化为了仇恨,他发誓要找到妻子的情人,让他也尝一尝和自己一样的滋味。