A young theater teacher takes his students to a children’s theater festival in Sochi. This story could have been about talented children and their charismatic, rebellious teacher, but it is a story about losing.
Evading the police, Issa and her brother Tomas seek shelter in a secluded orphanage in the forest. But the siblings’ safe haven soon reveals itself to be a hellscape controlled by a sacrificial cult in thrall to a fearsome nocturnal deity.