Forty-nine-year-old Beau suffers from severe mental illness and is still a virgin because his mother believes he will die if he orgasms—just as (he's told) happened to his father the moment she conceived him. He lives in paranoia, imagining the city around him as a living hell, where a serial killer roams the streets naked and bodies are left to rot in the middle of intersections. He's supposed to leave to join his mother, but in a series of botched attempts, he manages to have his house keys and luggage stolen. An accident involving a psychotropic drug further worsens his mental state. Hit by a car, he wakes up in the home of the loving Roger and Grace, but this is only the first stop on a mind-bending journey...
American director and screenwriter Ari Aster is among the most influential names in contemporary horror. With just three feature films—Hereditary, Midsommar, and The Scared One—he has redefined the genre's boundaries, blending visual terror, psychological drama, and social commentary. His stories, often centered on broken families, esoteric cults, and pagan rituals, reveal an obsession with pain, guilt, and alienation. Aster constructs disturbing cinematic experiences, where every visual detail contributes to a sense of profound anguish. Raised between the United States and England, he studied directing at the AFI Conservatory and rose to prominence with his short film The Strange Thing About the Johnsons. Despite mixed reviews in the US, European audiences and critics have embraced him as an auteur capable of combining refined aesthetics and emotional tension. Founder of the production company Square Peg, Aster continues to explore horror as a tool for investigating the fragility of the human soul.
