This film tells the story of one boy's struggle to come to terms with his harrowing past; an adult story seen through the eyes of a child. Zura is forced to watch as his father is slaughtered by members of his small village. The mother escapes with the boy, eventually moving away and living in a run-down apartment in Tbilisi where a new life (hopefully) awaits. However, a new location cannot begin to erase the psychological trauma the boy has experienced and this manages to affect his every relationship; neighbours, his new teacher, schoolmates & even his mother. His father's death at the banks of the lake (hence the title), have twisted his strong personality towards sinister/evil ways. His pent-up grief manifests itself in dark ways... can he possibly ever escape his anger and sorrow? Inspired by Heinrich Mann's "Abdication" (short-story).

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Ein Mann schminkt sich vor einem Spiegel die Lippen. Dann schreitet er durch die Reihen, küsst Frauen und Männer und verteilt Pflastersteine. Mit blutrotem Lippenstift schreibt er „guilty“ auf den Spiegel, kniet nieder und hält ihn vors Gesicht. “Guilty of Kissing” heißt die Performance. Unter den verstörenden Klängen der Noise-Musik von Mathieu Sylvestre entwickelt der Künstler Frédéric Krauke eine ungeheure physische Präsenz. Wer den ersten Stein warf, war nicht zu klären. Fakt ist: viele Steine fliegen auf den Spiegel, bis dieser krachend zerbirst. Das Publikum hat die Bestrafung vollzogen.

“We shall survive in the memory of others,” Vilém Flusser Interviews
hg. von Miklós Peternák für das Center for Communication and Culture, Budapest, sowie von Marcel Marburger und Siegfried Zielinski für das Vilém Flusser Archiv