DE RETOUR

A person talks to Jorge aboard a train about his return from a short trip. Jorge gets off at a station and goes around the city. There are two individuals who are, or at least pretend to be, his friends. They greet him festively and take him to what is according to them his house, where his (?) wife Ester is waiting for him. When he wakes up unexpected1y in the traín, Jorge is on the way back to his city, a place inhabited by ghosts. When he goes home, Ester is there with a boy child and a man. Nobody notices his presence. When he is lost in the night he meets the two individuals again. They lead him to a party, where Ester, too, is; but she asks to be called Vera. The two unknown individuals carry him into the night.. towards death, laughing in their macabre way, Jorge wakes up in his bed and sees Ester asleep next to him. He wakes up to take in the silence of the night. And in this silence the echo of the two individuals' laugh reverberates frighteningly This sound drags him out and sucks him up in the pursuit of his "kidnappers" his ghosts.

Director and screenplay: Giovanni Cioni.
Director of photography: Simon Verstraeten.
Art director: lsabelle Henrix.
Editor: Jean Thome.
Sound: Clivier Vanderaa.
Cast: Enzo Pezzella, Barbara Manzetti, Michel Mentens, Pierrick Bisinsig, Manuel Poutte.
Production company: Qwazi Qwazi Film, 270, Chaussée De Haecht, 1030 Bruxelles, Belgium, tel. +3222151438, fax +3222151438; Persona Film, 62, rue Cardinal Lemoine, 75005 Paris, France, tel. +33143256726, +33-1-43260614.
Foreign sales agent: Qwazi Qwazi Film, 270, Chaussée De Haecht, 1030 Bruxelles, Belgium, tel. +3222151438, fax +3222151438.