How it all ends

Three women are awaiting the end. Until then, everything must be prepared: They have a go at farewells, oscillate between pathos and serenity, and every now and then the inbetween needs a courageous »Cheers«. The resolution of everything is fast approaching, they are wishing for what they fear the most: the end. Because it is only the end that makes existence meaningful. Or is the end of the world already here?
Gradually, it becomes apparent: The three voices are fractures of consciousness in a single dying female body. Bound to a bed and in the midst of a hungerstrike, it is being policed and supervised. Reality loses its familiar temporality. In How it all ends, the Chilean author and director Manuela Infante conveys a feeling of apocalypse and finality, which is so prominent in our times. By utilizing her sense for embedding great philosophical questions and her virtuous poetical language, she draws a multidimensional and multivocal image of the end of the world –...