DEAD
GROUND

Back in fora boy healready lost.

At night, a wounded soldier searches a bombed-out building for a boy he told to wait for him. A comrade whose face we never see answers him over the radio, and we watch almost the whole night through that comrade’s eyes.

It is a war film with no war in it. No battle and no enemy: the war stays outside the frame, and the one explosion comes in a single flashback. Almost the whole film is one first-person look.

The voice knows the way, and it knows the boy. Then a mirror shows who is really in the room.