From writer-director Boaz Yakin (FRESH,
REMEMBER THE TITANS) comes a provocative psychosexual tale
set at the crossroads where family, history and sexuality
collide. This shockingly visceral and explicit portrait of a
family on the verge of destruction exposes the ties that can
so dangerously bind us – erotically, psychologically and
emotionally.
The story follows the tale of two brothers (Josh Lucas and
Lukas Haas) who are trying to climb out of the shadows of
their Holocaust survivor mother’s (Jacqueline Bissset) dark
past – and the love affair she conducted with a Nazi doctor
while in the camps.
Decades after their mother’s experience, which left her
blurring the lines between pleasure and pain, the sons’
lives still reverberate with the damage. One (Lucas) is a
sharp, charming, intensely sexual but loveless con artist
working in an exploitive modeling agency, while carrying on
a carnally extreme relationship with his boss (Vanessa Kai).
The other (Haas) is a brilliant but reclusive pianist unable
to venture from the house. But change has come upon the
family. The reclusive brother is moving out of his parents’
home for the first time; the ambitious brother is about to
make a deal with an alluring new business partner (Adam
Brody) who promises to jump-start a new life; and their
mother finds herself pursued by a treacherous figure from
long ago. As duplicity, moral compromise and the ghosts of
the past haunt their vivid sexual and emotional
relationships, the family careens towards a shattering
catharsis.
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