Inspired by the work of an award-winning Italian novelist, this post-modern noir fantasy is centered on the image of a young poet and his aristocratic family. Set in the 1800s the plot develops around an ancient curse and a series of mysterious and terrifying events occurring on the family country estate. Featuring authentic period sets and costumes, the film is a metaphor of maturing and becoming, where death and rebirth intertwine and perpetuate each other in a continuous flux of life.
Eva, a mysterious doctor, searches for an answer to her urgent dilemma as she unravels Dr. Anmuth's Book of Vision. Henry gets involved in her life and is forced to confront his own nature, as Eva faces the biggest decision of her life.
Five people travelling by camper crash into a tree. When they recover, the road they were driving on has been replaced by an impenetrable forest and a wooden house.
In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it’s the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this grotesque façade, with devastating consequences for the entire community.
Samuel, a boy who lives with his mother Elena in Villa dei Laghi, an isolated manor surrounded by woods, feels trapped in the family routine, growing up seemingly protected, but unsatisfied and restless.
Justin Alexander Korovkin was born in Italy in 2007 and is Italian/Canadian. Being fully bilingual in English and Italian, he acts in both English and Italian dramatic feature films. Justin was discovered in 2017 by casting agent Beatrice Kruger and film director Carlo S.Hintermann who launched him in the role of "Günter" in "The Book of Vision". In 2019 he was chosen for the male lead as "Samuel" in Roberto De Feo's "The Nest" (Il Nido). He played both leitmotif piano pieces in the film, recorded live on set. The same year he was chosen to play "Geremia Guerrini" in Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo's ensemble film "Favolacce" (Bad Tales). Justin lives in Italy with his father, anthropologist, novelist/poet Michael Korovkin and mother, visual artist and contemporary art historian Stephanie Morin. He is represented by Planet Film in Rome.
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