Director’s Note

When I was young, two inseparable boys used to hang around my neighborhood – one from our sheltered housing estate, the other from a children’s home on the outskirts of the city. When the two of them got lost in drugs and petty crime, the parents of the sheltered boy took action and sent him to boarding school in England. The other boy lost his whole world, tried to take his own life after a while and silently disappeared from the scene. Our lives went on as if nothing else had happened, but this memory never really let go of me and became the starting point for this film. It tells the story of those behind the walls and those in front of them. Those who are allowed to sit inside look out through the clean window and can decide whether the raging world outside is any of their business or not. Those outside are dependent on being granted entry. And the walls that separate us from each other cast their shadows in all directions.