32 minutes of cake-fueled existential dread with your creepy neighbor.
An unemployed dry alcoholic and former smoker longs to escape his shadows in a small abandoned village. Triggered by a mysterious meeting with his neighbour, he must face temptation, hallucinations and nightmares as he searches for his own fulfillment (in form of a cake).
Acting
Lena's trembling restraint vs. Röber's menacing instability.
Direction
Röber's micro-budget dread that punches above its weight.
Production
Abandoned village as genuine character, not backdrop.
Director
Luke Röber
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Luke Röber also plays the neighbor, making this essentially a two-hander psychological duel he staged against himself.
The 32-minute runtime deliberately mirrors the structure of a panic attack — slow build, peak disorientation, ambiguous resolution.
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