Plaion A Pure Place

From earth and dirt, a girl grew. Different from all the others. Her teeth were white as snow. Her name was Hygeia. This story is told by the orphaned children who were once brought to a remote island by the mysterious cult leader Fust - saved from a world that is sinking in filth. Irina and her brother Paul also live here. They dwell in the dirt of the basement beneath the immaculate villa of their "savior." Here, they produce a special soap that is said to bring absolute purity to the cult as a sacrilege. When Fust takes notice of the beautiful Irina and chooses her to move into the villa with him, the siblings are separated for the first time in their lives. The new power intoxicates Irina increasingly. She does not realize how Fust is preparing his cruel endgame: as Hygeia, she is to free the world from dirt, which in Fust's vision also includes the children. Things take a violent turn.

A film in tune with the times: Director Nikias Chryssos achieves with A Pure Place a nightmarish mixture of psychological thriller and modern parable that gets under your skin. With its disturbing images of an equally paradisiacal and dark Greece, it delves into the paranoid depths of a germ-free society. A Pure Place is a dystopian film about the societal terror of perfection, rooted in the depths of the human soul.