It's an anthology of stories written by acclaimed directors and graphic designers like Blutch, Richard McGuire, Marie Caillou etc.
The film has six dark tales and they're not necessarily connected; except for the motif of intense aphonic ambiance. It's in Black & White of course, but the images are so vivid that you will not miss the colors. In fact, these two colors, Black & White is what works for all the six tales.
A shy and socially awkward teenager meets a girl who falls in love with him. What he doesn't realize is that, his one ignorant and curious act of childhood may start the ripple, thus creating a Butter-fly Effect in his slow and solitary life.
A strange case of a monster lurking in the swamps of a village; And a little's boy's friend who has the answers and explanations to the eerie happenings around them seems beyond peculiar.
A little Japanese girl suffers from nightmares and horrible dreams. Perhaps the only way to get cured is to go back to her dreams and face the monsters that await her.
A man, looking for shelter and rest in a snow-storm finds himself a large house, a dark house, a lonely house. The pictures and darkness in the house seem to offer him more than what he asked for. As you walk around the house with him, It gives you chills.
An honest confession about the confusion of the world. The trauma and burden of being a human is narrated along with optically illusioned graphics.
A man, with an attire worn during the 18th Century, walks around with a hound of aggressive, gruesome and ghastly dogs, while he has a even more grim and ghastly expression on his face.
The movie is disturbing, of course and I wouldn't recommend it for everyone. Usually what happens is people watch such movies and they feel like they didn't get the message or It went all over their head. What you need to understand when you watch a film like this is the simple theme of Darkness. How we fear the dark; Not just children but how adults, humans fear the inky and dingy atmosphere. The insecurity and the the helplessness that comes along in the clouds of darkness and the unpredictably of what could happen next is what is portrayed in all the six stories.
None have a pleasant ending; Unlike reality, where darkness comes to an end when light pours in, the film gets even darker and dimmer towards the end.
