The film revolves around Damián, who, in order to run away from his boss when he fires him after many long years of service in his company, hides in an old wardrobe that gets delivered to a middle-class house, inhabited by Lucía, Fede and their teenage daughter, María. Damián realises that staying in the wardrobe gives him the opportunity to lead the life that he has always yearned for. He thus becomes the family’s guardian angel, doing the housework in their absence, but he starts to lose his grip on reality, and Lucía, who is on antidepressants, believes that the closet harbours the ghost of her late brother.

Dreamy animated images in detailed henna painting and atmospheric watercolours dominate a young Spanish artist’s moving journey of discovery. In a small bookshop in India, Inés comes across the feminist-utopian science fiction story “Sultana’s Dream.” It is about the terrible revenge on men, the bookseller explains. In the slim volume she wrote in 1905, Rokeya Hossain describes...

不是费里尼的荒诞遐想，亦非芭比的粉红国度；这个女儿国，是孟加拉国思想家萝琪雅侯赛因在二十世纪之初于《苏丹娜之梦》一书想像的女性主义乌托邦：男人构成威胁，就把他们留在家中，让女人可在外自由发展。古书令导演伊莎贝夏基拉心向往之，化身笔下东来印度的西班牙少女，一趟神游梦幻国度之旅，探索女性社会地位、两性关系角力，以及由古至今男女不平等问题。墨染、水彩糅合传统曼海蒂彩绘图案，以魔幻写实的感性笔触，绘出女性独立自主的空间。

　The film revolves around Damián, who, in order to run away from his boss when he fires him after many long years of service in his company, hides in an old wardrobe that gets delivered to a middle-class house, inhabited by Lucía, Fede and their teenage daughter, María. Damián realises that staying in the wardrobe gives him the opportunity to lead the life that he has always yearned for. He thus becomes the family’s guardian angel, doing the housework in their absence, but he starts to lose his grip on reality, and Lucía, who is on antidepressants, believes that the closet harbours the ghost of her late brother.