SYNOPSIS

Fanny, a young nurse working at a big public hospital, is trapped every night in the same obsessive nightmare. She dreams she turns into a tree. While stuck in a lonely everyday routine she realises that her nightmare goes beyond the imaginary and gradually infiltrates her life. When Fanny realises that her sleep drives her to another condition of existence she decides never to go back to sleep again. In order to stay awake she resorts to wandering around the city of Athens. During this wandering she will let herself follow the flow of things and desires. 

INTENTION

Midnight Skin deals with the change of the course of life of a lonely person who gradually “deserts” her human nature and ultimately accepts a “new way of existence”. Having as a thematic starting point the sense of alienation, the film aspires to become an existential one that moves on the verge of realism and fantasy. 

In the film we watch two simultaneous stories. On the one hand, Fanny is experiencing a lonely reality. She passively observes herself in relation to her social entourage, feeling alienated. On the other hand her nightmare is gradually fulfilled. After every night of sleep, Fanny is more transformed into a tree. The character’s social isolation and the anxious feeling of the inevitable nightmare that becomes true, form the Kafkaesque universe in which she finds herself stuck. 

When Fanny realises that her sleep is related to her transformation, she makes a radical decision: she will remain awake forever. In order to carry out this decision she wanders aimlessly in the city of Athens. This wandering will be a turning point in her life and will trigger a journey during which she will come into contact with other people. Just before leaving behind her human nature she finally finds a way to bond with it.