With his first Dogma-95 film director Lars von Trier opens up a completely new film platform. With a mix of home-video and documentary styles the film tells the story of a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.
Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.
Linette has been chatting with a mysterious person on Facebook. When one of her classmates dies tragically and a masked person is spotted watching her and her friends on several occasions, Linette decides to unfriend her mystery Facebook friend. But things are about to get much worse.
Nobody can understand you when you're 14. Except possibly a monster. A bullied teenager meets a stranger from out of town and they form an unusual relationship.
A very intimate look on Lars von Trier and his cast and crew, during the production of "The Idiots".
