When a homeless little ghost knocks on the door to the eccentric residents of a Ghost Train on the lookout for a place to belong, she accidentally attracts the attention from the outside world and must team up with the motley crew of monsters on a crazy quest to save not only the future of the Ghost Train but also her only chance to finally have a family of her own.
Dedicated to the poet Paul Celan, the film traces the itinerary of the deportation of Jews from Czernowitz and Bucovina to Mikhailovka camp on the banks of the river Bug during WW2. Among them was the poet’s mother.
Anick, introverted and bullied, becomes an unlikely hero when an AI in shape of a fierce Medieval girl reaches out through time, seeking help to defeat the Rat King, a creature who wants to build a shadow realm of hate and lies. Rat King is a 3D animated adventurous feature film, for a target audience 10 years old up to all ages. While it tells the exciting and funny present-day story of Anick, a 13-year-old girl, it refers to German fairy tales as well as to Japanese anime and pop culture combined with queries about how social media and AI changes the way we define ourselves.
