23岁的女孩玛丽娜，在父亲的抚养下长大在海边一处工厂附近。在她眼中，人类既古怪又讨厌，玛丽娜总是保持着距离，她所有的教育都来自Suicide乐队的歌曲、英国bbc主播大卫·艾登堡的自然纪录片以及自己唯一的朋友贝拉。一天，镇上来了一名陌生人要和她玩一盘桌上足球。玛利亚的父亲与此同时，正在仪式性地准备着他同“被高估”的二十世纪的告别。

Kinetta, a Greek desolate resort town, inhabited during the off-season by migrant workers. Lanthimos studies the cryptic activities of an inscrutable trio (a policeman, a photographer and a hotel maid) who barely speak and who pass the time by staging re-enactments of murders.
The policeman with a passion for automobiles, tape recorders and Russian women, investigates a series of recent murders in the area. He enlists the help of a photo-store clerk, a loner who is a part-time videographer, and a young hotel maid, who will be performing the role of the female victims. This oddball trio engages in a succession of murder re-enactments, directed by the cop with exhaustive attention to detail but questionable scientific purpose…
We know nothing more of these people. Not even their names. They will disappear in the first flood of summer vacationers...