Intrigue

A promising professor of literature who survives a horrible car accident finds peace in sleep, where he can live a parallel life immersed in a dream-like dimension populated by strange visions and Dantean allegorical imagery.

Father ploughs a supermarket with oxen, the plough ripping the tiles. A forest full of dead and Niagara falling onto a cathedral altar. These are the visions of Adam, a poet who ha lost his beloved in a car crash. A national tragedy imposes on a personal one. It is 2010, a Biblical year for Poland with floods, fires, landslides and the catastrophe of the presidential plane being torn apart i mysterious circumstances along with the nations elite. Adam gives up his job as professor of literature to work at a supermarket checkout. Yet all he wants is to sleep, escaping from the painful reality.—Anonymous

Miraculously, Adam, a promising professor of literature, survives a horrible car accident that cost him the life of his beloved, Basia, and his best friend, Kamil. Under those circumstances, Adam decides to abandon a successful career and a brilliant future at the university, however, not his lifelong obsession for Dante Alighieri's "Divina Commedia", his sole consolation. Strange as it may seem, Adam finds peace in sleep, where he can live a parallel life immersed in a dream-like dimension which is lavishly populated by strange visions and Dantean allegorical imagery--only there can the troubled man see and feel the dearly departed. In the end, Adam's imagination and the phantoms of Dante's poetry can only become stronger as the land suffers from an unexplained string of unforeseen calamities. Is Adam safe in his refuge?—Nick Riganas