S1.E8 ∙ The Corden Favor

In the third segment of the "Razilee and Elijah Series". Elijah learns to reconnect, and explore new beginnings in a very visual and innovative way, while dealing with past intervals from traumatic loss.

Based on three different places, the film portrays the infractions to which people living in modern day China are subjected due to rapid developments.

The Orangerie: a unit in Luxembourg's neuropsychiatric hospital, its nursing staff, doctors and patients.

The film takes us on a journey through the periphery, which, despite being right on our doorstep, is entirely unfamiliar territory for most of us. Think of the late afternoon drive to IKEA. A trip through a characterless landscape that appears to express nothing whatsoever. It is as if we had parked the car on the hard shoulder, climbed over the barrier and fought our way through the brambles to the white areas on our mental map. The alleged no-man's land between dual carriageways and wastelands is inhabited by people who have claimed this territory for themselves, in order to create their own dominion-archipelagos in an almost incomprehensible void on the borders of the city, liberated spaces full of passion and extraordinary plans.

Fashion and design affect everybody, every day of their life. Most people are clueless about how these things work - how trends emerge to make their creators a lot of money. Trend Beacons look into the hidden world of Trend forecasting, explaining how things really work.