Abyss portrays an urban reality that is characterized in different ways by migration - people in motion, the transferal of money and power, and the transgressions of the imagination. The characters move around in an exploratory fashion, blurring private and public spaces. The focus is on a woman and her ‘negotiations’ of the physical and economic surroundings, but the cityscape remains the main protagonist in the film, whereby the city’s economical, political and social dynamics appear to have been absorbed into the character’s movements, speech and psychology.