生活被冠状病毒搅得天翻地覆之际，两名警探锲而不舍地追捕一起绑架事件的幕后黑手，因为他们发现此事涉及更大的险恶阴谋。

　　文学教授所罗门在女友不幸逝世后，郁郁寡欢，离职了一年。塞缪尔一直在遭受反复的噩梦：一个女人在一场奇怪的仪式中被残忍杀害。后来，如同梦境重演，一个受害者在相同情境下被无情杀害。 塞缪尔随即开始调查犯罪现场，遇到了也做过同样怪梦的雷切尔。 他们联手去揭开事件的真相，原来这一切和神话里的缪斯女神有关……

　　A group of passengers cross a river on a small ferry. Fog, laughter, whispers and faces inhabit a floating, suspended space. Time passes, the shore is now closer and people prepare for another part of their journey. Aqueronte summons the essence of cinema to transport us to unreal spaces where life is crystallised in a changing landscape of light and shadow. In this cinematic trip, Manuel Muñoz Rivas reaffirms the fabulating power of moving images.

　　19世纪中叶，西班牙巴斯克地区一个偏远所在。衣着考究的阿尔弗雷德·奥提兹（Ramón Agirre 饰）来到了当地一个小镇，他自称为省政府工作，此行的目的是找当第一个外号“铁锤”的铁匠帕尔西·弗朗西斯科（坎迪多·乌兰加 Kandido Uranga 饰）了解事情。从当地 人口中得知，铁锤脾气暴躁，不好相处，他所在的铁匠铺已成废墟，传言中这个铁匠更被人们视作魔鬼。未过多久，小镇的男人弄清了奥提兹的真实意图，原来数年前的西班牙资产阶级革命后，传言卡洛斯的黄金就隐藏在铁匠铺中。利欲熏心的镇民和奥提兹前往铁匠铺，却不知这里正是地狱魔鬼出没的恐怖所在……
　　本片根据西班牙民间故事改编。

AnunconventionalportraitofasmallvillagetrappedoutoftimeandlocatedontheGalicia-Portugalborder,EloyEncisoCachafeiro’sArraianosisoneofthoserarefilmswheredescriptionisinadequate:likethelandscapeofthevillageofArraianositself,it’ssomethingtoexperience.StagedStraubianmomentsoffictionstandalongsidedocumentarymomentsofeverydayvillagelife,withthenameless“actors”farming,sittinginthelocalbarandsingingtraditionalsongsintheirspecificregionaltongueandtellingoldwives’tales.We’reneverfarawayfromnature--thenoisypresenceofanimalsisinescapable--asistheenvelopingforest,aplacethattakesonmythicalqualities.Butstorytellingmaybethekey,asthefilmvisualizesoralhistory--avisualizationthat’sneeded,asatonepoint,whenanolderladystartstosing,thelyricsgounremembered.ThefictionalelementsofthepiececomefromaplaybyMarinhasdelValle,TheForest,writteninthe1960sasaparableofFranco’sdictatorship,butalsoagreatportraitoftheGaliciansoul,theirtragicexistentialism.Thefilm’sdocumentaryelementsthuspresentamorefrontalportraitofthesouloftheseautarkicpeople.Astheseasonschangeandthesignsofapocalypsegrow--afireragesintheforest--onemanpromisessalvation,whileanotherproclaimstheendoftheworldiscoming...Inthismovingwork,memoryfloatsinspace,andawayoflifediesbeforeone’seyes.