After its world premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival, and after travelling to dozens of countries, The Gambler returns home. Winner of five Silver Crane Awards and voted Best Film of the Year, it will finally hit Lithuanian cinema screens on 26 September.Compelling, dynamic and provocative, The Gambler takes aim at people in marginal situations who are much closer to us than they might seem at first sight. Frustrated and with nothing left to lose, the film's characters eventually find themselves just too close to death and turn it into an instrument of profit. Death is a gamble. How? The plot of the film tells us.Vincent is a top ambulance worker with a passion for gambling. Pursued by debtors, he is forced to do something radical to pay back the money he keeps losing. Vincent has the idea to create an illegal game related to his profession. At first, the macabre activity is only of interest to ambulance workers, but it soon expands rapidly. Fellow medics become gambling agents and Vincent becomes a banker. Things are getting better financially, but the game is opposed by a doctor, Ieva, with whom Vincent has just developed a passionate relationship. Soon he will be forced to make a fateful choice - the game or love.Ignas Jonynas, the director of The Gambler, together with the philosopher Kristupas Sabolius, has created a convincing, intense and shattering script. The filmmakers have shown that a film that explores a complex moral choice can be gripping and never let go until the very last frame.Those who like to swim on the surface will enjoy the suspense, fast-paced action, irony, excellent soundtrack and compelling acting that are woven into a dramatic love story. For those who dive deeper, The Gambler will leave you under a multi-layered blanket of metaphors and will make you remember that the ambulance sirens are ringing for all of us.