TRANSMISSION

A young woman is attacked on the street by a group of youngsters, who steal her car. Henrik, watching the incident from his window, is incapable of intervention: he is virtually paralyzed by an extreme form of insomnia. His youngest brother Otto subsequently starts up a relationship with Julia, the victim of the mugging. His middle brother Vilmos, married with two little daughters, murders his wife Nora in a fit of rage. The other two brothers help him bury her corpse in the garden by night. The next day, the two little girls have vanished. Did they see something? Vilmos desparately starts looking for his daughters. ADAS – TRANSMISSION plays in a coastal town in the not-so-distant future. It is a place tightly framed in clear, tableau-like images; the prospect of escape seems unlikely. A film about a crime, about the dark secret of three brothers, about communication – or, more aptly, its absence. At the end, Henrik builds a wall, literally, between himself and the outside world.