The trials and triumphs of Malti, an acid attack survivor. From the investigation of the attack to the court proceedings, the medical treatment to the emotional healing. Chhapaak is the story of the unquashable human spirit.
早在1912年,德国科学家弗里德里克(汤姆·伯克 Tom Burke 饰)提出了“泛大陆”的理论,意指地球上的大陆曾经全部都连在一起,因为地壳运动导致碎裂才形成了如今的格局。1939年,尽管战争正在激烈的进行当中,德国人还是排遣了一只海洋考察队前往北极腹地斯瓦尔巴特群岛,去寻找更多能够支持这一理论的证据。 这次出行的,除了弗里德里克本人和他的助手莱尼(詹妮特·海因 Jeanette Hain 饰)外,还有来自世界各国的科学家们,他们在俄罗斯船长(斯文·诺丁 Sven Nordin 饰)的带领下扬帆起航,向目的地驶去。一边是云谲波诡的无尽海洋,一边是变幻无穷的战争局势,大陆上发生的一切,无不影响着科学家们之间关系微妙的平衡。
In sepia tones, the film moves back and forth among three periods in Robert Tucker's life he's an old man, near death, in a nursing home at Christmas time; he's in middle age caring for his cheerful but dying mother; he's a lad at Catholic school, practicing his catechism, going to confession for the first time, receiving the Eucharist, surrounded by the singing of a children's choir. In middle age, he looks through his scrapbook of photographs of muscular men; he recalls lovers and his mother's cremation. A nurse sits beside him on his last night; in his last breath, he reaches forward and back..