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Fear of a global collapse due to a greedy and violent society forces a man to spend his last days in an old bunker far off humanity. Always thinking of leaving the safety of his dwelling to recover what he left behind. lay down is a dystopian movie about remembrance, personal responsibility, survival - and it's worth. Using locations, technologies and props of the cold war era, this movie intends to make the viewer consider about the risk of the upcoming worldwide conflict that we are facing today. lay down is questioning the possibilities of a single individual to deal with it.

Ample white, glistening polar light, a silhouette in the distance: Ray Mondt was a polar explorer, a seeker who never shied away from any obstacles on the path of knowledge. His workplace: a research station in the Arctic. Yet that life is over when he develops an allergy to sunlight. From now on he lives in a London basement that he only dares to leave at night. When he becomes a witness to a murder, he is terrified by his own coldness and decides to change his life. To free himself from his disease, he experiments with radiation. But the effect is different than expected.

In an attempt to escape from his debilitating depression, Martin steals a camper van and takes off, "heading west." He meets the feisty hitchhiker Marie and takes her along. The two couldn't be any more different, but precisely for that reason, they come to recognize a necessary companion in each other.