Scarlet is a visual fever dream that doesn't need you to understand the rules because the animation itself is the story. The world collapses and reforms frame by frame, the sound design hits like a physical force, and you stop asking why anything happens because you're too busy watching it happen. A revenge tale that abandons logic the moment it enters the Otherlands, trading coherence for the kind of spectacle that only works on the biggest screen possible, where every impossible image burns itself into your eyes before you can question it.

A king lies dead, and his daughter Scarlet burns for vengeance against those who betrayed him. When her first attempt at revenge fails and her enemies strike her down, she awakens in the Otherlands, a realm steeped in madness. Here the rule is harsh: anyone who cannot take revenge on their nemesis and reach the Infinity Land fades into nothingness and ceases to exist. Joined by Hijiri, an odd young man from a distant land, Scarlet sets out once more to hunt down the people responsible for her family's tragedy. The road through this underworld is dangerous, and the answers she wants may turn up where she least expects them. The film blends action, adventure, fantasy and psychological drama.