The Island (2011)
Directed by Kamen Kalev

Film Synopsis

Sophie and Daneel could not be happier.  A settled couple in their thirties, they lead a harmonious life in Paris and it seems nothing can upset their relationship - until the day when Sophie tells her partner she has arranged a surprise holiday for him.  Daneel doesn't appear at all pleased by Sophie's invitation to spend a few days with her in Bulgaria.  In fact, he does his best to talk her out of it, but in the end she gets her way.  It is only after their arrival in the country that Sophie realises why her partner is so reluctant to visit Bulgaria - it turns out that he was born here and has nothing but unhappy memories of the place, having been brought up in an orphanage.

The holiday gets off to a far from agreeable start.  The beaches being too crowded for his taste, Daneel takes Sophie off to a sparsely populated island in the middle of the Black Sea.  It is an eerie place, strangely cold and oppressive, and the few people the holidaymakers run into behave in a way that is quite unnerving.  Daneel is surprised when he comes across a pregnancy test kit in his partner's bag.  He wonders what this signifies.  Is Sophie about to tell him something he doesn't yet know?  The unfamiliar setting does not help matters as the couple feel themselves slowly drifting apart...