A mother lives isolated from the outside world with her daughter in a remote house. The mother wants to train her child to be a survival specialist in a world of unknowns. The curriculum includes shooting, driving, science and housework. When the girl gets a 13-year-old house slave named "Dog" as a reward, everything changes. The director and writer duo Harriet Maria and Peter Meining (FALTER) were inspired for THE HEAD OF THE CAT by the disturbing educational guidebook "The German Mother and Her First Child" from 1934. "THE HEAD OF THE CAT is a surreal, fascinating dystopia that makes viewers shudder." (FBW)