Your new stepdad just got out of prison. What could possibly go wrong? Everything, apparently.
A man returns after spending five years in prison abroad. He wants to start his life anew but faces only obstacles. His stepson sets out to seduce him, leading to a family tragedy.
Acting
Donkov's haunted eyes say what the script dares not.
Direction
Rosen and Georgiev turn a living room into a pressure cooker.
Director
Mariy Rosen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bulgarian cinema has quietly been producing some of Europe's most transgressive family dramas; this continues that tradition of using claustrophobic spaces to explore national trauma.
The 90-minute runtime is deliberate — any longer would be unbearable. The directors have cited Michael Haneke's 'The Piano Teacher' as a structural influence on how they build discomfort through duration.
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