When the Moon Rises is a poignant wartime love story, a pair of lover who are unwilling to part, initiating a dialogue interwoven with sincerity and lies. This is a film about longing, memories and the subconscious, which takes its inspiration from a kind of projective test in psychotherapy – the Rorschach inkblot that was invented after the end of World War II to treat traumatized soldiers came back from the war.