The film begins with an anecdote about Friedrich Nietzsche witnessing the whipping of a horse in Turin, which supposedly led to his mental breakdown. The story then shifts to focus on the horse, its owner (a poor carter), and his daughter living in a desolate farmhouse during a relentless windstorm.
While the Biblical Book of Genesis describes the creation of the world in six days, this film depicts the world "un-making" itself over six days. Extreme Minimalism: theturinhorse2011limited720pblurayx264r new