Plot Summary:A Belgian couple waits in an empty hotel in the Carpathian mountains. She suffers from a lingering illness. He helps her find her peace. Left alone, he escapes reality and starts to wander. DRIFT explores his quest for salvation on a mythical journey through a barren Romanian wasteland. Fighting his memories, the drifting man chooses not to speak and to loose himself in an animal-like and primitive existence. His simple but painful rituals echo an ancient culture long forgotten. As the past reveals itself, insanity sets in. Slowly, he disappears as well.
The end to his partner’s lingering illness is the catalyst that sends a Belgian man on a quest for salvation in Romania’s barren wasteland. Losing himself in an animalistic, existence that leads to madness, he allows his the past to consume and ultimately devour him.