Eden and After

A group of university students from Bratislava meet after class at a bar called Eden, where, amidst glass walls and reproductions of Piet Mondrian's abstract paintings, they stage ritualistic performances with BDSM themes. Among these young people is Violette, who is the film's protagonist.

One evening a stranger named Duchemin enters the bar and engages the students in games of magic tricks and tells them anecdotes he has experienced in Africa. Duchemin particularly fascinates Violette, who takes a hallucinogenic substance he offers to her. Violette agrees to meet him in the evening in an abandoned factory. She gets lost in the factory and, after a series of hallucinatory visions, manages to escape next morning, only to find Duchemin dead at the foot of a staircase overlooking the nearby canal. She finds a postcard from Tunisia in his pocket.

Returning home, she discovers that she has been robbed of a valuable painting. She leaves for Tunisia, where she meets a sculptor, Dutchman, who has the same features as Duchemin, and she becomes his lover. She is then kidnapped by a gang of young men, played by some of her fellow students she befriended at Eden. Imprisoned and subjected to torture, she manages to free herself with the help of a girl—her mirror-image or doppelgänger—and recovers her painting. Soon afterward she finds Dutchman dead at the foot of a staircase by the sea, which reminds her of the place where she found Duchemin's body earlier.

Back in Eden, she narrates that nothing has happened yet or perhaps everything was just a fantasy, hallucination, or premonitory dream of hers.

• Eden and After at IMDb