Athena Strates

記念すべき第 10 回ハンガー・ゲームの新しい試みとして、贄の教育係に任命された 18 歳の少年スノーは、貧しい境遇から抜け出す為に優勝を心に決める。だが、彼が担当する事になったのは、最も弱い第12 地区の少女ルーシーだった。そして、彼女の唯一の武器は歌だった...

Successful architect Jeremy Angust is approached on his trip to the Tokyo International Airport by a chatty girl called Texel Textor. She is a strange young woman who seems to be looking for captive victims whom she forces to listen to her strange stories. Jeremy loses the flight because of Texel and once they are installed in the lounge area, he will not be able to get rid of the annoying stranger. Although the meeting seems fortuitous, soon there be a turn that will transform the character of that encounter into something much more sinister and criminal.

Two friends embark on a journey together which will test the limits of their friendship and uncover dark secrets. Reality and imagination start to blur. Can they trust everything they see?

ベテラン詐欺師のロイ(イアン・マッケラン)が出会い系サイトで狙いを定めたのは、夫を亡くしてまもない資産家ベティ(ヘレン・ミレン)。全財産を騙し取ろうと策略をめぐらす非情なロイを、世間知らずのベティは徐々に信用するようになる。しかし、単純な詐欺だったはずが、物語は思いがけない事態へ発展していく―。 暴かれるのは、人間誰しもが抱えて生きていかねばならない秘密と嘘。偽りに満ちた人生の奥底にある真実とはー。英国が誇る両名優がぶつかり合う、至高のライアーゲームが今はじまる。

In the near future: Europe is in chaos. Right-wing extremists have taken power in many countries. The democratic state that once was Germany has become a totalitarian system that persecutes dissenters, Muslims and homosexuals. Jan Schneider has stood as a lawyer on the side of dispossessed victims. When he learns that the regime wants to jail him again, he decides to flee with his family. His goal is the South African Union, which enjoys political and economic stability after an economic boom. A freighter is to bring him, his wife Sarah and the two children Nora and Nick together with other refugees to Cape Town, but the tugs abandon their passengers in much too small boats off the coast of Namibia. On rough seas, it comes to disaster, the little Nick is lost, and no one knows if he could reach the shore...