Maloin's story is ours - all of those who doubt or question our humdrum existence.Legendary Hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr's moody and claustrophobic drama is a homage to film noir based on a Georges Simenon novel.The character of Maloin leads a basic, lonely existence working at a French port on the shore of an infinite sea. Yet, when he witnesses a murder, his monotonous routine takes a sudden detour. Filled in black and white and full of pure cinema magic, Tarr's flawless mise-en-scène evokes Maloin's indestructible longing for a life of freedom and happiness. Questioning morality, sin, punishment, innocence and his complicity in the crime, Maloin comes to question the very meaning of existence.