Petra Fornayová

After a painful divorce, 50-year-old Nadia finally finds a good flat for reasonable price for her and her daughter. Too good to be true, and soon, albeit too late, she comes to understand the reason for the bargain. Her close neighbour in the house is mentally ill Valika who terrorises everyone around her. Piussi’s film creates a string of absurd encounters with increasingly menacing effects, but it is – at its core – a fantastically precise film about humanism, its consequences, its possible limits.

Nina a douze ans et son monde vient d'être brisé: le mariage de ses parents est en panne et ils divorcent. Les deux personnes qui, jusqu'à présent, avaient été son soutien le plus fort ne sont plus capables de communiquer entre elles, et Nina ne peut que regarder dans la misère alors qu'elles se disputent jusqu'à leur dernier souffle. La seule certitude dans sa vie à ce stade est sa natation compétitive, mais quand sa participation aux courses est compromise, elle décide de faire un mouvement radical ...

Jaroslav is a handsome and seemingly good-natured son, father and decent husband. But in fact he is pathologically jealous of his wife Blanka and very much afraid that she will leave him one day with their three children. Jaroslav and his family do not hesitate to employ violence, deceit and terror against others, which ultimately leads to a family tragedy.

Just out of prison, Tomáš, a taciturn loner, takes a job cleaning houses where people have recently died. Things take an alarming turn when he begins putting in overtime: hiding behind closet doors after hours to secretly watch the homes’ residents. His voyeuristic ways soon lead to a romantic obsession with a woman in distress—but in order to help her, Tomáš will have to come out of the shadows.