After the end of an intense relationship, Aurora returns to the places that marked its beginning and end. While reliving good and painful memories, she confronts what she lost of herself in trying to hold onto the love. In writing a final letter, Aurora attempts to transform the end into a learning experience—and understand that letting go is also part of moving on.
On his way to Tehran, Ali stops by the village where his childhood caregiver, Hasan, lives. He wants to take Hasan to Tehran for treatment, as he is ill and suffers from dementia. Hassan has conditions for coming to Tehran, and he won’t go with Ali until he completes his pending tasks in Naein. As Ali helps Hassan with these overdue matters, he learns new things about Hassan and gains insight into his fictional world.
The dramatic story of Nadya, a young woman who, after a misstep in her youth (killing her unfaithful fiancé), tries to right her wrongs and return to a normal life. After serving her sentence, Nadya begins searching for the daughter she gave birth to in prison, and her friend Andrei helps her. Nadya's subconscious and the immense power of maternal love create a unique world in her imagination, through which she now lives.
As a teenager, Warti carried too much burden: being a mother, the backbone of the family, as well as a victim in her own household. She tried to breastfeed her baby, but stress and malnutrition prevented her from producing milk. Meanwhile, her husband, Supri, is immersed in online gambling and violence. From behind a pile of false eyelashes that she strings together to survive, Warti searches for the strength to make a decision: stay in the toxic household, or leave for a better life for herself and her baby.
Eloísa, a 20-year-old girl, is in two relationships at the same time. One night, after having been with both girls, she feels overwhelmed by living in this situation of deceit, and in the middle of her confusion she goes out to ride her bike through the streets of Medellín, where she will realize that she does not want to acknowledge who she is — but will ultimately have to come face-to-face with herself.
At the onset of the COVID-19 lockdown, a man retreats to his family’s Pennsylvania vacation home, where he rediscovers his old filmmaking gear and sets out to finally direct a film with his newfound endless free time. But unbeknownst to him, someone else is watching.
Nawojka, 20, dreams of escaping her harsh life working at the family farm. Under the influence of the free-spirited Sandra, Naw experiences trance-like episodes and strange powers, just like her dead mother before her…
Jun-ho brings up his ex Yeon-joo to Dong-seok, the guest. He fell in love with her at first sight, who looked like his ex Su-jeong, and suddenly disappeared. A few days later, the police came and said Yeon-ju died in front of the bar, adding that they interrogated him. Dong-seok confides to Jun-ho that Yeon-ju is actually his girlfriend, and today is the 49th day since she died. Eun-young asks Jun-ho about most memorable moment. Junho realizes that Yeon-ju was actually a fantasy and Eun-young was a real-life Yeon-ju.
Soundouss and Jaâfar, two gay youths from Casablanca, spend the summer in Cabo Negro in the north of Morocco, at a villa rented by Jaâfar’s American lover—who does not show up. The friends decide to stay in the villa and do the best they can.
When Jeanne, a meticulous insurance assessor, is suddenly left to care for her estranged sister’s two children after their mother vanishes, her carefully ordered life begins to unravel. Confronted with unexpected responsibilities, she must balance the fragile task of earning the children’s trust while also tending to her own relationship with her girlfriend, who struggles to adjust to Jeanne’s new role. As grief, uncertainty, and shifting loyalties mount, Jeanne finds herself redefining what family and love truly mean.
A filmmaker takes on adapting a book about mother-daughter relationships, stirring up memories of her own childhood trauma and the mother who left her as an infant.