Jakob Bokulich as "IKAR"
S Y N O P S I S
Jakob
Bokulich as "IKAR"
1991; the Serb-Croatian
War.
Ikar (JAKOB BOKULICH), a young
Croatian soldier
and devout Catholic, is sent on a military mission
to blow up a church. Inside the abandoned building,
he encounters three gypsies who give him some tea
made from the hallucinagenic datura
flower. Ikar
drinks the tea and experiences, what he believes
to be, his second visitation from the Virgin Mary
(VALERIE BURNS) and Her plans for his future.
October,
2001; Oakland, California
The war has made Ikar into a
fighter and he takes up
boxing after the war is over. Ten years later, Ikar
arrives in post-9/11 America where war-time flashbacks
haunt his dreams and trigger early childhood memories
of him and six other children who saw Virgin Mary
in
the Bosnian village of Medjugorje
twenty years earlier.
Atosa Babaoff as "MARIAN" and Anastasia
Vega as "PERI"
The
Persian Sisters Next Door
His new neighbors notice the
handsome, reclusive boxer
with an eastern European accent. The sexually aggressive
Peri (ANASTASIA VEGA) pursues him, much to the dread
of
her more sensible sister, Marian (ATOSA BABAOFF),
whose
plans for a big family dinner are subverted when Peri
invites
Ikar to a
wild pagan fire ritual that
same night, an event that Ikar embraces as a
catastrophic sign from his religous vision in
this timely tale invoking the myth
of Icarus.
