A famous actor, after suffering a heart attack, invites his two daughters from Belgium and France. Trying to find a way to keep them by his side, he suggests them to stage an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for three actors. During the rehearsals, some ugly truths come to the surface, concerning a father who was always absent.
The fall of Europe. North-Europeans are forced to migrate. Lucas, a middle-class man gets stranded in a coastal village in search of a passage to a brighter elsewhere. There he meets a girl, who could possibly help him for the overseas journey, but at an immoral price. BRAK is based on a novel by Elvis Peeters and filmed on location in real settings (refugee camps and the abandoned city of Doel, Belgium).
Three men left to live quietly in laziness and just getting by until a scam juicier than the rest present itself to them. In the meantime, their wives are unanimously facing redundancy. Panic on board. It’s with terror that our three blokes imagine their future lives, their wives on their case day and night and not a minute of rest.
A shelter is threatened by shutdown and demolition. 60 women of different ages, nationalities and social backgrounds gather in order to defend it, attempting to redefine their place in today’s world. By day they discuss and clash over all matters concerning them. Society, sexuality, politics, relations, maternity, work. By night they let themselves free.
