Why

Why

197198 min7.3 / 10

A darkly comic satire of bureaucratic absurdity and institutional injustice, where an innocent man's arrest becomes a Kafkaesque nightmare of unanswerable questions.

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Swiden, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?

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