There they really are: dead birds.

This first look at the base of the enormous 5G radio mast alone shows eight cadavers.

The electromagnetically hypersensitive people in the small Belgian town of Creux, who are shot through by waves of pain when a mobile phone is transmitting, also know that invisible rays make you ill.

Anxious looks then go in the direction of the gloomy tower made of Schrammelbeton.

Ophthalmologist and mother Laurence (Myriem Akheddiou), the enchanting heroine of RTBF series Unseen, is one of the radio wave vulnerable and sleeps in a tinfoil-lined basement.

She doesn't want to know anything about an attack on the mast, but she tries to talk to the mayor and hands out self-designed stickers with crossed-out 5G symbols, often ridiculed.

If only you had listened to her.

If you're hypersensitive to facts, you'd better look away for a while at this clever game that Marie Entoven (script) and her cousin Geoffrey Enthoven (director) play with fears and myths that are also widespread in Belgium.

Lateral nonsense, the core of which has always been reminiscent of bad thriller plots, is not only embraced narratively here, but exaggerated so much - even into a grotesque pandemic, although conceived before Corona - that humorless aluminum hat wearers of "Unseen" don't get it should definitely feel belly brushed.

However, we are now quite used to it.

It is possible that concerned thinkers have long been open to the assumption that 5G rays make people invisible.

After all, Attila Hildmann has not been seen for a long time.

Reversal of the attention economy

That's what the plot revolves around, the gradual optical disappearance of more and more of the city's residents.

Physically, of course, they are still there, can talk to other people and even leave fingerprints.

They can only be recognized clothed by missing hands and faces.

In order to be completely invisible, you have to walk around naked: an original reversal of the usual attention economy.

When the exposed persons lose consciousness or are asleep, their bodies become visible again, sometimes in vulnerable nudity.

As symbolic as it all seems at first glance - a parable about the unseen in society - and as easily as the motif of the sinister radio waves could be understood as a parody of Internet smear theses,