New Directions
It’s the prototypical 50-year-old man’s dream, right? To meet a young woman (a girl, really) who becomes smitten and the two fall in what might be a semblance of love. Put the two into the waning days of the Iron Curtain, as it becomes inevitable that the Berlin Wall will fall, and things get more complicated. Told from the point of view of both the man and the woman, ‘Kairos’ raises questions of who’s using who, where’s the power dynamic, and what does such a relationship mean in a closed society where every move is being watched.