In this bizarre, dreamlike world nothing seems quite right – including people's behaviour. Between the hours of six and nine, the town mandates silence, to reduce interference as the voices from beyond are recorded onto cassette tapes. Aris and Anna, newcomers to the city, are staying in a dilapidated hotel. An instant sense of fellowship develops between the two strangers, and they walk together in a regular nighttime ritual, as neither is much good at sleeping. The film is also perfectly executed on a visual level, with thoroughly composed and highly symmetrical shots of an arid landscape lensed in sun-bleached colours.
“I wanted to have a very certain and specific mythology. I needed to find some details that would make this myth more believable, more palpable – more specific. /.../ At the end of the day, the film is about a very scared society. People disappear. Some want to remember. Some need to forget. It’s a scared society. The only way to escape this fear is by loving.” (Christos Passalis)