Where does one draw the line between pursuing a dream earnestly and slipping into obsession?

How many people have to die for Mads Mikkelsen's dreams to come true?

A tragicomic allusion to the outbreak, establishment and end of the Civil War. Lack of communication, inability to forgive and refusal to accept always lead to such outcomes.

The possible apocalypse in Bela Tarr's film has become a phenomenological tool, a kind of mental prism through which the existential yearning of the human soul is passed.