One day, a man murders his dying lover by drowning him. In a calm voice, he tells his story: for many years he had a relationship but his friend then got ill which changed the relationship. From that moment, fear of death ruled the day. The illness slowly changed his lover into a stranger. He tells of the tension which built up as he was considered more and more to blame for all the irritations of the other. Until, one evening, he could take no more and drowned him. Worn out, he falls asleep and when he reawakens, there is both peace and sadness. He himself breaks the silence and calls an ambulance. They want to talk to him about all sorts of things until he is finally left alone, waiting for what will happen. Along with the outside world, his lover is once more in his existence, unavoidably he is again present. Then he realizes that his attempts to do away with the pain were vain. He may have broken out of the situation and his lover may no longer be physically present, but he has inherited his pain which now rules his existence. We drift with him through his thoughts and follow how he becomes steadily more and more entangled in his memories and feelings and the images that belong to them, while we see him sitting there, apparently at peace. The room, however, has no window any more, no outside world; there are only his thoughts, a world of fear, love and sorrow.
– Carla Hoekendijk
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Camera Didier Maigret, Jaxques Perron, Sound, Music, Sound mixing Monique Jean, With Claude Godin, Voice Stephen Lind, Graphic design Andrew Harris, Special thanks to Jacques perron, Stephen Lind, Production Transmar Films
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