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A priest and his companion hunt silently through the fields, accompanied by a braying dog. They are armed and deadly. Their quarry is Camiel Borgman (Jan Bijvoet), living in military sparseness in an underground den, near companions Ludwig and Pascal. Camiel scrapes out with some difficulty, hitching a ride with a doomed truck driver on a relentless trip to the heart of suburbia. He passes by two odd women, Brenda and Ilonka, with whom he seems to share a history. When a dirty Camiel arrives at the door of artist Marina and media executive Richards expansive, designer-chic home, the shifting perceptions of Van Warmerdams screenplay begin to displace and disorient the audience. Hallucinogenic elements dot the consciousness as Camiel shifts between the roles of victim and aggressor. He asks for a bath. He toys with Richards jealousy. He is viciously beaten up by his cruelly intolerant host and left wounded on the floor. Marina seeks to assuage her guilt by allowing him a space for the night. She treats his wounds. She makes him some food. She begins to deceive her husband. And Camiel Borgman insistently starts to install himself in the house as his dark advances ebb and flow, push and pull. Marina is self-obsessed; Richard a casual racist; they employ a nanny Magot to look after their three small children, the youngest of whom, Isolde, sees Camiel early on and is responsive to his presence. "There is something that surrounds us," says Marina, fearfully, but she is no longer in control. Large dogs roam casually through the house. There are flashes of something sinister in the garden as Camiel waits, and watches. Soon he is inhabiting Marinas dreams. "Couldnt you come back in another capacity?," she asks him. "I could," he says, "...but it will have consequences."
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Camiel Borgman
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Marina
Jeroen Perceval
Richard
Alex van Warmerdam
Ludwig
Sara Hjort Ditlevsen
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Eva van de Wijdeven
Ilonka
Annet Malherbe
Brenda
Tom Dewispelaere
Pascal
Elve Lijbaart
Isolde
Dirkje van der Pijl
Rebecca
Pieter-Bas de Waard
Leo
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Gardener
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Arthur Stornebrink
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Mees van Warmerdam
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