Overstaying

An isolated woman clashes with an enigmatic visitor in this funny, jagged parable about integration, difference and hospitality An isolated young woman living in a small Swiss town decides to take in a mysterious stranger, known only as 'the visitor'. His arrival introduces disturbance into the narrator's carefully sealed life, and the longer he stays, the more opaque he appears. As the woman's projections onto her guest grow ever wilder, she increasingly entertains fantasies of power and control over her persistent, unknowable visitor. Sly, wilful and full of slanted humour, Overstaying is a surreal and profound exploration of hospitality, integration and otherness.