With a suitcase in hand, and the wrap in which her daughter Kaya sleeps on her back, Ingrid Barrowe sets off from the island that bears her name, on a journey across Norway to search for her child's father. And everywhere you go, you ask one question: Does anyone remember a Russian who fled across the mountain during the last winter before the war ended?
During her journey, and through her meetings with many people, Ingrid realizes that war leaves its scars on people, but peace also works with memory. Will you find the person you are looking for? How well does she really know about the man she's risking everything to find?
"The Eyes of Rigel" is a poetic and harsh story about a post-war people, and about people's destinies, told from the perspective of an extraordinary woman who slowly discovers that the truth is the first casualty of peace.
Ingrid Barøy was born on a small island off the northwestern coast of Norway, an island inhabited by only one family, living out their ambitions and dreams that collide with the boundaries of the land and the weather, and the mercy of the sea, which provides a living, but also brings death.
Father Hans dreams of building a pier connecting them to the mainland, but contact with the outside world comes at a price, which Ingrid will know fully after she grows up and goes to work there for a wealthy family and take care of her two children. With the couple disappearing one day, she finds no choice but to return to her home with the two children, and thus the island’s population increases in number, and a different life begins, especially as Norway awakens to a wider world, a modern world that is volatile and can be cruel.
“The Invisibles” is a profound interrogation of freedom and destiny, written with delicate narration and brief, simple, calm sentences tinged with poetic tensions, creating a painting of natural cinema that makes the “invisible” clearly visible.
