In an elite cave school in the rocky Black Sea coast, a cliff dwelling community is taught survival in a barren moonscape in the wake of the catastrophe.

All of them live in an obsessive dream – to leave the Earth in a vessel, like Noah's Ark, before the explosion of the Sun in four billion years.

[3] This ship became the inspiration for a group of loosely related works, which also included a poem called Moon Lake[4] written in German and a theatre performance in Norway in 2004.

[9] Moon Lake was also inspired by the unique location where the movie was shot, the steep cliffs and caves in the Yailata National Archaeological Reserve, south of Kamen Bryag, on the Black Sea.

The languages spoken in Moon Lake include English, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Bulgarian, Ancient Greek, and Esperanto.

"[14] The movie's release was accompanied by the publication of a book of essays about Moon Lake by a group of distinguished Eastern European philosophers, poets and critics like Miglena Nikolchina, Boyan Manchev, Edvin Sugarev, Bogdan Bogdanov, Darin Tenev, Albena Stambolova, Dorothea Tabakova, Kamelia Spassova, Maria Kalinova, Rajna Markova, Todor.

Miglena Nikolchina, the editor of the book, wrote In the film Moon Lake, Orpheus functions as a cultural hero, as coextensive to civilization and as its principle.

The film achieves this by representing the wanderings of an ancient and a future Orpheus, whose trajectories inscribe their mysterious figures on a landscape comprised of primordial silt, archaic ruins, modern waste, and moon scenery.

Chronologically stratified and yet recognizably modern, this landscape reverberates as speech (from Plato to Eliot and Machado), as music (from the conch shell to electronic instruments), and as a diachronic object world (from the horse-drawn cart to the Jaguar).

In it, living and dead languages merge; the gripping, almost inaudible call of whales pierces the squeaking of rusty oil pumps; a fortune-teller and an astrophysicist join forces in their prophecies...