The Burning Child is a story about Vienna. It is a film journey into the city’s interior. The Vienna interior is a built architecture of home buried in the city’s past. It is the city’s inner secret, the deep currents hidden beneath its foundation. And it is also the interior space of the human self, discovered and mapped in the city. From around 1900, when it became the central Europe’s magnet metropolis, to the present day, Vienna has inspired fateful dreams home. Its most famous denizens-Freud, Wittgenstein, Klimt, and many others-designed visionary interiors that formed the basis of the modern home. Part documentary, part imaginary journey, The Burning Child explores the dream of homemaking in the most and least homely city. Through interviews, testimony, and uncanny film footage, it presents the Vienna interior against the backdrop of Austria’s repressed Nazi past, when homemaking, for Vienna’s most ardent homemakers, met a catastrophic end.