The ambiguity is the lead trait. a fantasy ? memories ? an accident ? an usual event ? The answers are not useful in this case. but the cinematography, the simplicity of script, the feeling after final credits, a short film so precise than it gives a more complex story than you expect. Sure, using your imagination. A WC. Two men. An older one. Scenes not unusual. And the shadow of emotions on the face of one of characters.
When Matthew explores the 'spiral' in his grandmother's garden (a strange structure built by his late grandfather) he discovers an entrance into the magical world of 'the Shadows' where he meets his new Shadow friends, Yorrick and Alice, and begins his great adventure.
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
