But when it turns out that the Americans have bought the failing steel factory merely for speculation, the industrial town dies out.

The Austrian playwright Gustav Ernst depicts a town where people are sick and vomit blood on the streets.

The rose bushes that overrun the town at the end of the movie are reminiscent of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty.

Director Theu Boermans performed the play 1000 Rosen in 1990, with the theatre company De Trust.

Boermans shot the film in 34 days on site in Bois du Luc, a village in southern Belgium, and in the halls of Amsterdam's (former) Westergasfabriek.