Middle-aged cake manufacturer Niels is on the verge of a breakdown as his factory is on the brink of bankruptcy. His wife Else tries to save the factory by calling home their daughter June and her husband Jonny, who propose a comprehensive modernization focused on the production of healthy cakes....
Europe, 2028. A humanlike creature washes ashore, carrying with him a motionless body he calls his mother. He is on a mission of some kind, reporting on the dwindling human activity in an increasingly automated world.
The film is a Kafkaesque tale of an insignificant Water Inspector who arrives at a giant remote building in order to register the residents’ water meters. Before he knows of it, he finds himself trapped inside the building facing an “Alice in NO-Wonderland”-like maze of obstacles. In his...