A DRAGON ARRIVES!

The most colorful, imaginative, pop film on the (re)construction of reality and historical memory comes from Iran. A detective is being interrogated for a case he handled 50 years ago. On 23 January 1965, one day after the murder of the Iranian prime minister, a political prisoner was found hanged inside a half-built ship in the middle of a desert island, next to a cemetery. Legend had it that earthquakes occurred whenever someone was buried, so the detective got to work, accompanied by a sound engineer and a geologist. What is left of this research when the file re-opens? Memories from the past arrive in the present as fast as an orange Chevrolet that crosses the desert...