December 1999. Amid the Millennium Bug anxiety, a boy attends the birthday of Enrico, a kid who lives with his family in an old and isolated farmhouse.

Spurning cinema’s idealized depictions of childhood, Francesco Sossai revisits the obscure dangers—and desires—that prowl the murky shadows of memory lane. Y2K fear lends an air of apocalypse to this nightmarish short, which channels Lynch and giallo more than Spielberg or Disney.