A short film that tells a fictional story using a curious phenomenon from the 18th century. The narrator of the novelistic plot is a decorative hermit who was hired by the eccentric owner of a country castle to live modestly like a hermit in a grotto as decoration for the garden. No one seems to know his true identity.
Resurrectus Est is a hand painted film which suggests, from the first, a spread of fragments of plants and flowers, individual petals and bits of twig with multiple colors, with much green "leafiness".
Tony desperately needs some cold hard cash to help finance his next big business venture. He left Brooklyn years ago to get away from his old man and now is shacked up with his main squeeze, Aphrodite, in a Venice flophouse.