Nightfall—masterfully written, directed, photographed, and edited by acclaimed director Fred Kelemen—is a devastating existentialist account of two lovers in search of redemption. Somewhere in a dark and barren Europe at the end of the twentieth century, everything has lost its way. In the city, unemployment rules like a plague and affects the gloomy Anton (Michael). Leni (Jasch), with whom he has been living for years, irons clothes in a laundry and tries to inject life into the dark cocoon Anton has woven around them—a life dedicated not to materialism and work but to sensuality, belief, and the possibility of love: ultimate anarchistic acts against a barbarous environment. Torn apart at dusk, the lovers venture out on separate odysseys through the black of the night and their own souls, meeting different people along the way but ultimately reuniting with renewed and transformed spirits.