ODAÁT

Odaát, Hungarian for "over there”, takes a look at today's rural Hungarian population. After a failed attempt to find some work in the West, Zoli, the eldest son of a gipsy family returns to his home village. His parents earn their living as casual workers on the fields. Younger brother Tomi works as a kitchen hand in a restaurant. Zoli wanted to escape from this oppressive system but, not knowing what to do, he now stays in bed all day and a conflict with his father is on the brink of explosion. But it is not only society's outsiders who are floating in this state of lethargy. In the second part of the film, we encounter a middle-class retired couple, Ildikó and Ferenc, who are spending the end of their lives in a remote country house. Their daily routine consists of getting up, eating then going to bed again. Their once big love has faded away in the daily grind. But they are not giving up. In an interplay between documentary and fiction, the protagonists become the actors of their own reality. Odaát is a film about the absence of communication, a lack of perspectives and loneliness. Is it still possible to live together?