Reality and fiction merge in this film about – and featuring – professional actors with intellectual disabilities, which explores the heart-rending tensions between what its spontaneous stars want, are able and are allowed to do. Inside My Heart is a film that moves between the magic of an opera and the depth of a documentary, a baroque drama written in verse, a fairy tale about murder, manslaughter and eroticism with the seven deadly sins as a major theme. Director Saskia Boddeke’s imaginative style employs every possible cinematic means to make the sharp contrast between fiction and reality palpable in a light-hearted way.