While visiting his father at a dilapidated sanatorium, Joseph discovers that the old man has stopped breathing but hasn’t died. Has his arrival halted time itself? He takes a strange journey through the many rooms of the hospital, each conjuring worlds composed of memories, dreams and nightmares.

One of the national treasures of Polish cinema, Wojciech Has fashions cinematic universes out of byzantine sets, hallucinatory images, and galleries of grotesque characters. Hour-Glass Sanitorium is an unforgettable trip through the looking glass, and a master at the height of his powers.