Do you laugh at everything because your life is a disaster, or is your life a disaster because you laugh at everything? A dysfunctional family, thieving offspring, a father who solves problems with beatings, and a mother who tries to protect her children by plying them with food. In the middle of moving, with his romantic life in shambles and worried about his next gig, Gadler (not to be confused with Galder, an entirely different person) struggles to bury any signs of a past that knocks insistently at his door, as if demanding something of him. In this moving look back at the childhood traumas we'd like think we've overcome simply because they are in the past, Vars portrays a dysfunctional existence that teeters between the tragic and the absurd, using comedy as both weapon and defense.
Do you laugh at everything because your life is a disaster, or is your life a disaster because you laugh at everything? A dysfunctional family, thieving offspring, a father who solves problems with beatings, and a mother who tries to protect her children by plying them with food. In the middle of moving, with his romantic life in shambles and worried about his next gig, Gadler (not to be confused with Galder, an entirely different person) struggles to bury any signs of a past that knocks insistently at his door, as if demanding something of him. In this moving look back at the childhood traumas we'd like think we've overcome simply because they are in the past, Vars portrays a dysfunctional existence that teeters between the tragic and the absurd, using comedy as both weapon and defense.
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