Jody Graber

A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.

Angleterre, 1307. Edward II est devenu roi. A peine couronné, il s’empresse de faire revenir Gaveston, son amant exilé en France. La cour se montre aussitôt très choquée par les moeurs dissolues de son souverain. Condamnée par la société, sa relation homosexuelle avec Gaveston se renforce.

During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him in the trenches. He combats these terrifying images by maintaining hope in his love for an army nurse. But he also begins to accept his fate as another battlefield sacrifice.