In this short-film it's all about the mood. And the tone immediately gets set in the long-lasting opening scene. One confused spirit is up at night, dragging furniture across a cold and dark street, for an obscure reason unknown. Thru him we learn other people's motivations to be awake in this freezing darkness. While he criticizes their existence, he unravels his own problems and reasons why he's drawn by the night. Lucas seems fed up with life, sick of reality and every reason is good enough to tell the world how he thinks. His disgust with society resolves into short but strong dialogues set to a dark and vague cityscape of Lisbon. Lots of questions get raised in the first few minutes of the movie, but thru the people he meets, and the following conversations, it leads us to an end where it al becomes clear, even-tough it's in a hazy way. The condemnation he projects on the coincidental victims seems mainly a form of denial and self- criticism. In the final scene he ultimately gets sucker-punched by the life he wanted to abandon but clearly wasn't capable of missing and returns saddened to a sweet little place called home.
storyboard sketch of the opening scene
lucas-face test sketches
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