The film based on a strange old pagan tradition, still preserved in only one village in Semogitia (a part of Lithuania). The tradition goes back to the archaic space of the magic’s of folk theater.
The tradition ‑ guarding the God on the Easter night ‑ have mixed pagan and Christianity rituals now. On that night theatrically dressed up "the Artists" and "the Warriors" gather in the church, where "the warriors" will guard the statue of the God and "the artists" will try to steal it. Having failed, they will mock the proud "the warriors", the villagers on guard and the sacred thinks in the church. The night will go deeper. The people and "the warriors" will get sleepily and must fight not only with "the artists" but also and with fatigue. And we cannot understand what is it? A strange Semogitian game, longing for an unusual fiesta or mystic possibility to go lot of years back.
Night falls on a village, half‑drowned in water and surrounded by strange urban islands "cosmic ground" and villagers get together to their church to their church to perform an ancient and archaic ritual.
There is a strong feeling for me that something New and Unknown is going to happen. May be it is the beginning of "new times of Noah".
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