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Horsie, a reformed drug addict and self-styled monk, reluctantly returns to the dangerous world he left behind in order to help his former mentor, Spiro, get clean. While holed up in a remote lakeside hangout of days past, Horsie’s mistrust of Spiro swells as the secrets of a mutual friend’s mysterious disappearance begin to surface.
Bombarded with hallucinatory half-truths, Horsie is thrust into a phantasmagorical world of paranoia and lust as he continues to try and piece together the memory of tragic and deranged events he’s not even sure ever occurred. Quickly, Horsie’s grip on reality and his fragile new way of life start to crumble, leading him to the threshold of a horror he never imagined.
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Tony Asimakopoulos’s first short film, Jimmy Fingers, started winning awards soon after he graduated from Concordia University's Film Production Program in 1991. He received the Prix de la Relève for most promising Quebec filmmaker at the 1991 Festival de Jeune Cinéma in Montréal. The following year he completed Mama’s Boy, another short, which was invited to several festivals world-wide, including the Toronto International Film Festival. In 1995, Tony became involved with SAW Video Association, where he made several experimental films and helped to develop a video-production/apprenticeship program involving youth at risk. Horsie’s Retreat is Tony Asimakopoulos’s feature film debut. 
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