The barren wilderness, near and far without a trace of life. Countless men in tight black and white striped prison uniforms, dragging heavy shackles and shot puts, wandered aimlessly across the wilderness. The man tried to light a cigarette for a companion, and he raised his arm as hard as he could, only to fall short and hurt his foot with a shot put. The wounded prisoner sat down to rest, and suddenly he was attracted by the light above him. Looking for the light, the man climbed up a mysterious building. Perhaps driven by human curiosity, the man tried to climb to the end of the building where he could not see the top. The sun was hot and blinding, but he wouldn’t give up. In the middle of the climb, the two shot putts seemed to lose weight and float like balloons, and the stripes on his body seemed to float away from him.
Gravity changes, the man finds the blinding light bulb, he gets burned and falls to the other world, and the people of the other world also start to pursue the light, the men interrupt them because they know the consequences of pursuing the light bulb, he breaks the wall with his shackles, and finally finds himself in the giant shackles, at that moment, the man takes off the hood on his head, He understood that he would never reach the light.
The film is surrealistic, using live action and background composition, silent film effects, and eerie rhythm, this film shows resistance, hope, unity, the yearning for light and freedom, and human insignificance. Full of philosophy and inspiration.
People are always bound, from the outside world or the self, sometimes in search of a sudden hope, but hope is ultimately an illusion the world is bound and full of resistance but no resistance can escape the world itself.