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In a Butterfly's Dream A Tale of Passion, Possession and Transcendence on the Island of Bali
In this psychological drama, Roy and Sevin, two recent arrivals to Bali, soon find themselves in a struggle with malevolent spirits, demons and goddesses of the Bali Hindu cosmology.Roy, an artist, after meeting Dayu, a young Balinese girl, has visions of the mother he lost as a boy, prompting suppressed feelings of guilt and longing to surface eventually culminating in a spiritual release and awakening.Sevin, a delusional drifter and codeine addict, is rapidly using up his father's inheritance.
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In this psychological drama, Roy and Sevin, two recent arrivals to Bali, soon find themselves in a struggle with malevolent spirits, demons and goddesses of the Bali Hindu cosmology.Roy, an artist, after meeting Dayu, a young Balinese girl, has visions of the mother he lost as a boy, prompting suppressed feelings of guilt and longing to surface eventually culminating in a spiritual release and awakening.Sevin, a delusional drifter and codeine addict, is rapidly using up his father's inheritance. He becomes secretly infatuated with Dayu. This makes him vulnerable to the intentions of the parasitic stone monkeys, spirits who feed on the passions of anger, greed and envy, which eventually lead him to make a devastating choice.
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