Character Relationship Map: Nomads

Characters

• Flax (played by Lesley-Anne Down) — protagonist

  Flax is a physician in a Los Angeles hospital who treats Pommier after he is badly beaten. Following his death, she becomes possessed by his memories, relives his final week, and discovers the superna...

• Pommier (played by Pierce Brosnan) — supporting

  Pommier is a French anthropologist who has studied religious beliefs and spiritual rituals while traveling around the world. After settling in Los Angeles with his wife Niki, he investigates a violent...

• Niki (played by Anna Maria Monticelli) — supporting

  Niki is Pommier’s wife, living with him in Los Angeles after his years of international travel. She represents his attempt to settle down, while he remains fascinated by nomadic life. After the supern...

• Dancing Mary (played by Mary Woronov) — supporting

  Dancing Mary is one of the supernatural nomads who attack Pommier’s home after he and Niki try to escape Los Angeles. She breaks into the attic where Niki and Flax are hiding, frightens them, and then...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Pommier → Niki (Romantic Spouse) — Pommier and Niki are married and live together.

  Pommier settles down in Los Angeles with his wife Niki.

• Flax → Pommier (Professional Doctor-Patient) — Flax initially encounters Pommier through her medical role.

  Flax is one of the physicians treating Pommier in the emergency room after he is badly beaten.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Pommier → Dancing Mary (Unknown Nomadic Spirit Connection) — The film places both characters within the supernatural nomadic group.

  Dancing Mary is one of the nomads surrounding the house, while the ending reveals that Pommier has become one of the nomads.

• Dancing Mary → Niki (Conflict Threatening Intruder) — Dancing Mary becomes a direct supernatural threat to Niki.

  Dancing Mary enters the attic where Niki and Flax have fled and frightens them.

• Dancing Mary → Flax (Conflict Threatening Intruder) — Dancing Mary directly terrorizes Flax during the house siege.

  Dancing Mary breaks into the attic where Flax and Niki are hiding and scares them before leaving.

• Flax → Niki (Alliance Escape Partner) — Flax and Niki cooperate while trying to escape the nomads.

  Flax awakens in Pommier's bedroom with Niki, and the two women attempt to flee the city together.

Story Analysis

A doctor's supernatural inheritance of an anthropologist's memories reveals a violent nomadic spirit world and transforms escape into assimilation.

Plot Progression

1. The Dead Anthropologist — Pommier arrives at a Los Angeles hospital badly beaten and dies after resisting treatment. Flax then receives his memories and leaves the hospital to follow his visions.
2. A Nomad Comes Home — Pommier's memories reveal his recent settlement with Niki after years of travel and cultural study. Their suburban home is vandalized by street punks connected to a disturbing shrine.
3. The Photograph Without Shadows — Pommier observes the punks, witnesses a murder, and finds that the body has disappeared. Missing figures in his photographs lead him to identify the punks as demonic spirits.
4. Flight Through Haunted Streets — The spirits pursue Pommier through Los Angeles, while a mysterious nun offers temporary refuge. The apparent sanctuary collapses when ghostly nuns begin chasing him.
5. The House Of Nomads — Pommier returns home and encounters another impossible disappearance before Flax awakens with Niki. The spirits surround and invade the house, forcing both women into the attic.
6. The Motorcyclist On The Road — Dancing Mary frightens the women, and the nomads eventually leave the destroyed house. Flax and Niki flee Los Angeles, only to recognize Pommier as one of the nomads.