Synopsis

“(H)ORN – The Night of the King” is a story that transcends time and space…

Stranded on a forgotten island in the middle of the ocean, it tells of the adventures of the survivors of a shipwreck that occurred 13 years before when they tried to escape a terrible menace that had befallen the world…

These castaways of time and the cargo ship, CAPE HORN, have since reorganized into a functioning community under the tyrannical control of ORN, their old captain, drunk with power and racked with malaria… Now their guru and despot, he has composed his own “liturgy” which he imposes ruthlessly on his people and the original inhabitants of the island. He has succeeded in submitting the island dwellers to his iron-fisted authority… and then develops a veritable hierarchy among the original members of his crew and the passengers who had embarked on the voyage in an exodus from the danger that was threatening their home… Divided so as to better rule… Eternal conflict of the eternal duality between the two great forces that build and destroy the world: the dominate and the submissive, generosity and malice, good and evil…

It will eventually be the forces of “good” that will attempt to save LOLIE and APOLLO.

LOLIE, aged 13, was born on the island a little after the shipwreck. She is the victim of the taboos, the punishments and the injustices that Orn’s “system” inevitably inflicts on those people… APOLLO, one year younger, lives at the other end of the island where he was born, behind the “perimeter” imposed by Orn… an artificial border which is supposedly meant to separate the “pariahs” from them…

Thanks to their imaginative and resourceful characters, these two children find the will and strength necessary to defend a noble cause: the overthrow of Orn.

LOLIE becomes the instigator of this heroic resolution… She will be helped in her task by two forces sprung from the world of Fantasy : ARGONE-BIRD, the falcon come from nowhere, bringing with her the riddles that Lolie will have to unravel in order to discover the origin of all conflict… and ARGONE, the true legend, the one that constitutes the myth of the island, reincarnated from the past in the form of the bird.

 From the three characters of LOLIE, ARGONE and the BIRD, it will often be difficult to know which point of view the CAMERA will take… And the originality of this project rests on this visual artifice.

It will be revealed that all three are actually one and the same heroine, working towards the overthrow of Orn, this master of deception whose grand design is to become the last King of the World !…

…a vain ambition when we know that LOVE will always triumph… But in this case, its flame cannot ignite without the intervention of Apollo with his innocent spirit and vivid imagination.

And so develops the union of Fantasy and Imagination;  only their association will allow them to bring a solution to the tragedies that blight humanity… And Orn, the puppet-master king,  will discover that his dark plans will only see the dark of night and, with it, his demise…

 “(H)ORN – The Night of the King” is a story of Adventure and Fantasy where the pure kindness of children infiltrates the black heart of despotism and its intolerance in an isolated setting rich with archetypal myths.

Frederic de Foucaud aka Fred De Fooko