When a thief is caught stealing form a book shop by one of its employees, the two embark on an unusual, erotic adventure. Set against the vivid backdrop of the massive student-led riots, Nagisa Ōshima's radical concoction of cinema verité, underground kabuki and just about everything in-between, is a striking meditation on the psychosexual ambiguities of the postwar counterculture.

Based on the shocking story of a young Japanese couple jailed for throwing their ten-year old son into traffic in order to extort money from unwitting drivers, Boy is one of Ōshima's most beautiful and restrained films.

Vladlena Sandu, a survivor of the war in Chechnya, studies her traumatic memories in order to transcend and transform them via cinema in her poetic debut feature.