Acting
Old Abraham Bentley hid the remainder of the family fortune at one end of a rope he arranged in the barn - the noose at the other end is in plain sight. He receives his prodigal son, Luke, with a mixture of obvious joy and of inarticulate urgings for him to hang himself.
The author Jurga Ivanauskaitė (1961-2007) was considered a pioneer of contemporary Baltic literature well beyond the borders of Lithuania. Her work deals intensively with the tension between religion, sexuality and emancipation. Film documents and interviews serve to reconstruct the life of this independent and willful woman - from her childhood to her artistic breakthrough as a companion of the Lithuanian rock and punk scene, but also depicting her spiritual side, which brought her all the way to India, where she turned to Buddhism. She is shown as fighting for the Dalai Lama and a "free Tibet", shown as a literary mind, but first and foremost she is shown as a woman who stood bravely in the face of inconvenience, pain and inner demons.
The film deals with the Lithuanian partisan resistance. An actor is playing the part of a partisan in a play called "Bunker". During the play he experiences a hallucination and starts believing he's a boy who lives in post-war Lithuania. In 1948 the boy made a mistake which cost the lives of him and the wife of a partisan. Back in 21st century, the actor has a chance to fix that mistake.
