An incredibly well-made and thoughtful, almost meditative film about impending death that deals more in its sociological aspects than its psychological ones. It's slow, dreary, dreamlike & strange. A whole third of the film seems to occur in the fever dreams of a dying orphan. There's also these six trenchcoated government figures that struggle to pull the hangers-on of a dying town out of their homes before a big flood comes. It all seems more like just a tonal exercise than anything, though.