Days spent in Vienna’s sterile bourgeois apartments pass by with nothing but the glow of blue screens and the quiet hum of tape recorders. In this crime-and-drama-driven film by Michael Haneke, we find ourselves face to face with a fourteen-year-old boy shut away in the darkness of his room. The cold gaze of handheld cameras captures the emptiness behind these sterile homes. In this world where violence has become commonplace, amateur footage takes the place of reality.