An aged projectionist leaves the cinema where he has worked for many years for a long walk home. He has just projected his last film. The streets are empty, but they are also full—of memories, many of them painful. We witness a gallery of ghostly visions, projections of his past, spectres of loved ones and visions cast upon walls and empty windows. Dramatically set to the haunting and melancholic music of The Isle of the Dead by Sergei Rachmaninov, The Projectionist is about memory and personal suffering.