A POISON APPLE

Is it better to burn out than to fade away? In this sinuous meditation on passion, youth and guilt, a man looks back twenty years to his relationship with his first love, Valeria. The year is 1993, and while he's undertaking military service, his best friend accompanies Valeria to a Nirvana gig in his absence - a night he feels has defined his entire adult life ever since. Entwining this most personal story with seminal events of the 1990s, A Poison Apple circles back to some of the biggest questions: what is a life worth? What does it mean to really commit to living? And can we ever break free of the past?