Bibliotheque Pascal 2010 In order to regain custody of her daughter, whom she left in the care of her fortune telling aunt, Mona must tell a social worker her story The tale she spins and the movie we watch is a wild, surreal adventure in which people are able to project and enter each others dreams, and our heroine is sold into slavery and lands in a swank, debauched Liverpool brothel where the patrons enact their literarysexual fantasies with Lolita, St Joan, and Desdemona Rendered with dazzling tracking shots, striking CGI effects and a pulsing soundtrack, Hungarian director Szabolcs Hajdus risk taking fantasia has style to spare But under the seductive surface lurks the very human story of a woman who uses fantasy to cushion the pain of life