The first feature film by Jan Lauwers, Goldfish Game tells the story of a small community violently torn apart. It is a true-to-life, contemporary moral fable that develops with the fatalism of a Greek tragedy. Apart from being a tale of human drama, it is also a perceptive and subtle anthropological study of the mechanisms that hold a group together and the forces that work towards its disintegration. At the center of these forces stands death, one’s own death and those of others, as the irreducible empty spot that determines and delimits all human behavior.