Arquivo

A former Viennese cabaret and brothel where Josephine Baker was an admired dancer once is the last shelter for a society close to the abyss. Life is reduced to escape. Everybody flees from one another. The owner of the nightclub sings about "killing the one you love". The elderly diva and her repressed husband live with the garbage of yesterday. The husband imagines an illusionary audience. His spouse, the veteran performer, won’t believe that nobody wishes her back on stage. This desolate world is entered by the sex offender Lucien, who searches for his lover Java, only to find his murderer. A blind man only sells garbage, leftovers of a period when Vienna used to be the city of operettas. Gays, murderers, criminals and a mysterious waiter tell us an epic tale about death and trying to be loved.