Run time: 98 mins

A surreal, darkly comic Hungarian drama that follows a battery-farm chicken on an unexpected and unsettling journey into the human world.

After escaping a mechanised egg farm, a lone hen finds itself thrust into a chaotic chain of events, eventually seeking refuge in a seaside taverna on the Greek coast. There, it becomes entangled in a volatile family situation involving a kindly restaurant owner (Yannis Kokiasmenos) and his intimidating mobster son-in-law (Argyris Pandazaras), whose presence casts a shadow over the fragile sanctuary.

Adopting a strikingly animal-centred perspective, the film uses the hen’s experience to expose moments of casual cruelty and uneasy absurdity in human behaviour. The early sequences are especially sharp, contrasting the fragile vitality of living creatures with the mechanical indifference of industrial farming. Shot with an attentive, roaming camera, the chicken’s movements are rendered with unusual clarity and presence, giving the animal a surprising sense of agency and personality.

While the human storyline is more conventional and less developed, the concept remains consistently engaging, shifting between discomfort and dark humour. Supported by Szőke Szabolcs’ dry, playful score, this is an unusual and often compelling parable about survival, freedom and the uneasy overlap between human and animal worlds