Legend has it that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche suffered a mental collapse after witnessing a horse being brutally beaten in a Turin street. In what would become his final feature, Hungarian master Béla Tarr poses an unexpected question: what happened to the horse? The answer takes us to the countryside, where an old, ailing horse - the family’s sole source of income - struggles to continue working for the carter who once beat it. Told in Tarr’s signature meditative style, the film brings together Nietzschean philosophy, a sense of life’s futility and the bleak routines of rural existence.
