The Orchid Gardener

A young mentally ill man a visual artist in crisis Victor Marse Lars von Trier meets two nurses Eliza and her girlfriend during his stay in a sanatorium These nurses are obvious lesbians Victor lives with Eliza and her son He imagines another woman when he is roaming at a coast He pretends committing a suicide but Eliza does not react to it Every moment he stays in front of a blank canvas and thinks Meanwhile he dresses into Nazi clothes or into women dresses then he leaves to go to the cinema and abuses and probably kills a small girl His masochistic affair with Eliza lasts he is close to shooting her with a gun but instead she takes out a whip Victor goes along the streets then he lies naked in front of the canvas on which he has left his bloody fingerprints After this he drives a funeral car to his work he is employed in a garden where orchids are grown Eliza is now the past and in the end Victor might be dead as someone drives a cross into the ground