Synopsis

A nearly retired psychiatrist takes us through an uncomfortable journey to Dante’s Inferno on Earth: the ward of a psychiatry hospital lost somewhere in Siberia, which for the first time opened its doors to the cameras. While the doctor disperses himself in metaphysical question about the soul and the nature of mental illness, it is impossible for the audience not to question the treatment of the patients, in Russia or anywhere else for that matter. This is a question that Polish director Wojciech Kasperski leaves wide open for each one of us to decide by ourselves.