Magda makes it clear she doesn't want Tomaz there and he too is reluctant to stay. As she walks away, she is seen throwing Tomaz's money (which he thought lost) into the sewer. After visiting him in the hospital she suggests a better way of life for him and takes him to a house, explaining that a woman living there, Magda, needs help with the house upkeep as she cares for her dying mother. Unable to breathe from the smoke, he collapses in an alley way and is discovered by Sister Claire, a nun. When the building is set on fire, Tomaz is forced to flee suddenly in the night. In London Tomaz works as a day laborer while sleeping in a derelict building with other refugees. Tomaz periodically has flashbacks to this time and Mirian, a woman who took shelter with him after he spared her life when he caught her trying to pass the border. It becomes apparent that this is where he was stationed in his former country, which he eventually escaped to make it to London. The film is about a homeless ex-soldier who is offered a place to stay at a decaying house in London, inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother, but begins to suspect something unnatural is living there, too.Įx-soldier, Tomaz, unearths an amulet at an outpost in the woods. It premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, was released in the United States on 24 July 2020, in UK cinemas on 28 January 2022 and was Mark Kermode's film of the week for the Kermode and Mayo's Film Review programme on BBC 5 Live. Amulet is a 2020 British horror film written and directed by Romola Garai and starring Carla Juri, Imelda Staunton and Alec Secareanu.
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