Manuel F. Garcia

The tavern where the action takes place is the waiting-room of Hell, the first door through which the inhabitants from the other side of the mirror will return.

Augustine of Hippo dreams of time paradoxes and spiritual decadence of a civilization, which could as much be that of the 4th Century A.D. as our own.

Film originally shot between 1990 and 94 in Super 8, and which has been restored in 2022 for its premiere at the B-series Festival, B-Retina. A man runs desperately through a forest. He runs away from something or someone, but falls off a cliff before we know what or who is after him. Two years later, several seemingly unrelated events set in motion a gear where death, legends and madness have their own names.

In Ancient Times, the classic hero returned home and was rewarded with Glory. Nowadays, a trap awaits the returning hero: he is convinced failure is unavoidable.