Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr directs this bleak, brooding meditation on inner conflict and existential angst, filmed entirely in black and white and replete with his trademark long takes and lingering camerawork.
A dour loner, Karrer (Miklos B. Szekely) attempts to steal back his estranged lover—a lounge singer in a funereal bar named Titanik—from her debt-addled husband.
Karrer lures the husband into a smuggling scheme that will force him to leave town, but these well-laid plans soon go awry…