Shōgun

Two boys capitalize on the sale of motorbikes. A young woman is involved in an illegal money transfer. Two brothers with financial debts have to appear in court. The monetary rules are as firm as the heavy walls of the ‘Palace of Justice’. How did King Cash ever manage to build such an intricate maze? Is it possible to escape the story of money?

“If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, connecting me with nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds?”

Karl Marx1

• 1Karl Marx, “The power of money in bourgeois society,” The economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1844 (1844).