A couple travel to Sweden to visit their friend's rural hometown for its fabled midsummer festival, but what begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.

“Sunshine, flowers, white costumes.  Images of holidays and happiness.  But not here. His girlfriend is in a pyramid of flowers. A ritual she doesn’t understand, but she knows it’s deadly. She’s seen unspeakable things. A cloud pyramid.  Too much order, too much symmetry.   Director Ari Aster called his film ‘The Wizard of Oz for perverts.’” – Mark Cousins