The Morgenstern Boyd Trilogy

The Meadow a film by so far unsuccessful director Fritz Aigner causes a surprising stir at the Venice film festival As a result a notable producer tasks Aigner to shoot a sequel The making of the film turns out to be a disaster As the entire film crew rebels against the directors growing delusions of grandeur he finds himself confronted with the antagonists of his own fiction Morgenstern and Boyd They suck him into a spiral of sexual obsessions and omnipotent fantasies at the end of which there can only be the failure of the film or death itself