Mission

Dylan is alienated, alone, and done with the tiny, meaningless size of his own existence. He is a misfit because he is rightfully done with the facade of a shitty job, small talk and western functionality, his soul searching for something deeper. Within a single week, the young Glaswegian casts aside his job and false friends, just everything holding him back. He plunges headlong into a world without a safety net, seeking anything that feels real and makes him truly feel alive: noise, strangers, speed, art, and nature. Only the fragile relationship with his sister Claire seems to provide Dylan with a drive that counters his yearning for self-dissolution and pain. Paul Wright—who previously worked with the stunningly intense lead actor George MacKay on his debut feature, »For Those in Peril«, captures all of this as a visceral, deeply affecting experience. It is an immersive, expressionistic work defined by a frenetic pace and electrifying imagery.

»A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages...«

Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf