A lonely woman who falls in love with the man of her dreams; Elvis Presley. Elvis appears to Edi on her living room television and whispers sweet nothings that only she can hear. He even dazzles her with a real cubic zirconia ring. But when he promises to come to visit Edi, she must wait to see if the man of her dreams will appear in reality.
In movies women’s bodies are often seen in small pieces. Close ups of full lips, sexy eyes, long legs, etc, are cut together to suggest a convincing whole. But what if we took the pieces apart and found they didn’t belong to the same person?
Melding dream-logic and wry mystery, Arutinae melts the seams between sleeping and waking worlds. We follow up-and-coming indie musician Billie Christie on a pilgrimage to the former home of her musical idol, Inge Shielke, in the lakeside village of Matlock. Here, Billie meets the matriarch of an eccentric local family who presides over the lake's secrets—a polluted portal to the parallel world of Arutinae.
