An army major, a ballerina, a hobo, a bagpipe player and a clown find themselves at the bottom of a cylinder. They don’t know how they got there, they don’t know one another and they don’t really even know who they are. They just know they need to work together to get out. It sounds like Cube with another shape.
So the major slowly brings the others around and they start to climb. A bell rings and they fall back down. So they climb again. This time the major wraps his sword around a handmade rope and he makes it to the top, only to fall outside, and the others are left inside. Then we see that he’s in the snow.
Finally a hand reaches to pick him up… and it turns out that the cylinder is a collection point for dolls. The bell is a person ringing the bell to attract attention. And the major is just one of the dolls that has been collected, and now he’s being put back into the bin. Not quite Cube after all. A little slow, but a bit morbid, really. I enjoyed it.
