Touch

“Touch” is an uncompromising work about emotional scarring, the cycle of abuse, and the perverse nature of desire. In a poetic and highly stylized treatment, the film details the tragic journey of a physically and psychologically abused teenaged boy from early childhood trauma through to adolescent dysfunction. Composed in three articulate sections (Captivity, Liberation, Withdrawal), “Touch” is a disturbing tale of a young boy who is held captive for a period of years. When he is mysteriously set free after this long period of deprivation, he is found, hospitalized, psychoanalyzed and treated, but he is unable to adapt to the “normal” world of functional beings. Placed in a foster home and sent to a public school, he remains isolated and remote. While his body has been liberated, his soul is still captive. Ultimately, his only choice is to return in some way to the world that he knows, the world in which his history, his childhood and his perverse understanding of desire are still preserved.