The unspeakable told a thousand times...
The unimaginable seen a thousand times...
Where do you go from there? You have to start anew.
That is where this film begins...
On the banks of the river Danube, surrounded by the beautiful landscape of Upper Austria lies the picturesque town of Mauthausen. Two kilometres from its town centre is a place that attracts bikers, busloads of tourists, parties of schoolchildren, people from all over the world. Tour guides come to work here everyday while nearby the locals go about their daily lives. This is a place where thousands upon thousands of people from over 30 nations were tortured and murdered. This site is the former KZ, German short for concentration camp.
How does it feel to be a tourist at a former concentration camp? How does it feel to work here as a guide, day in day out? How does it feel to live here as a local with the dark secrets of the past? And what of those who've chosen this town to be their new home?
This is a groundbreaking film about us facing our ultimate demons. It is a contemporary yet timeless piece on the horrors that the human race has and always will be inflicting on one another.
Stripped of the usual dramatic devices, survivor testimonies and archive footage this radical film shows nothing but says everything.
It will shake you to the core.
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