If you enjoyed a film about the messy lives of young people in the film L’auberge Espagnole, this will definitely appeal to you. Axl (Fernando Tielve) has been abandoned by his English father who impregnated his Spanish mom. In order to find him, he travels to London and ends up at a warehouse/pub/dorm where so many people live, come, and go that no one keeps track. Hannah (Katia Winter) and Mike (Iddo Goldberg) provide him with a home while he tracks his dad down.
Another woman, Vera (Déborah François), a French girl, is also a lost soul, and if we are to believe what she says, she had an imaginary boyfriend for a major part of her grownup life. Now she is attracted to X-ray man, but not enough to enter into a relationship.
Unlike Axl’s father with his perfect family (he has conveniently forgotten about Axl being his son) and well-made beds (and thus, the predictable, organized, predictable lives that most people lead), these two people sleep in so many beds, and never really make them. It is a bit messy film, shot almost like a student movie project, but does make you think a lot.
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