Tale 52

Iasonas (Yiorgos Kakanakis) meets Penelope (Serafita Grigoriadou) at a dinner party at his home. Everything begins here. Everything will keep starting from here. They go out, they get to know each other, and at some point Penelope moves in. He can share everything with her; even that childhood game of trying to control his dreams. Then, one morning, Iasonas wakes up to find that Penelope has disappeared. He doesn’t know where she’s gone or why she left. He can’t remember what happened. Are his chronic headaches to blame, or a secret that reaches out from the past and pulls him further and further away from reality? Iasonas has to find a way to get his memory and his life back, but something keeps getting in the way. Is it the childhood game that has returned? Is it some sort of psychological disorder? Or perhaps an inexplicable natural phenomenon, a time vortex that pulls him in, deeper and deeper? This psychological thriller, with its outspoken visual language, offers no redemption. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)