SYNOPSIS
In an undefined time period in Sri Lanka, a sociopolitical youth uprising is being brutally subdued by the government. Stating the young population is afflicted with a paranormal, suicidal epidemic, the government kills them off in a series of holy rituals to end the supposed ‘curse’. One anti-riot unit struggles to reach a mountaintop with nineteen dead bodies and two young captives for a sacrificial killing. But the tension within the unit accelerates resulting in the young men escaping their captivity.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
The recent political history of Sri Lanka bears witness to many youth uprisings. The Sinhalese youth riots in the South in 1970, the similar revolt of 1989 and the Tamil youth riots in the North in 1983, which was a catalyst for the three-decade long Sinhala-Tamil conflict and the resulting civil war. All these insurrections were put to an end by the government of that era through militant force but the root cause of these rebellions were not resolved and the families of the young men and women who were killed or went missing were never provided with answers. With this film I attempt to reveal the brutal violence against the persecuted youth of these times and the suffering and the trauma left behind in the survivors. Unveiling how, throughout time, violence and myth are used as a double edged weapon to exterminate any uprising of the minority against the ruling class.