Empusion

Autumn of 1913. Lviv student Mechyslav Voinych comes to the Silesian resort of Gerbersdorf to be treated for tuberculosis. Not even a day passes after his arrival, as in the Boarding House for men where he settled, misfortune happens. And while Mechyslav's neighbors pretend that nothing is happening, go to the mountains, drink liquor, and have intellectual conversations about the world system and women, invisible forces have their own affairs.

​​Olga Tokarchuk plays with the horror genre but turns to familiar themes: nature and civilization, strength and weakness, male and female. And to the uncertain, complex, disturbing space between two opposites.