Coming back home after a night out, a young woman decides to call a taxi and drives to the forest. The encounter with nature compels the woman to shed different parts of herself – her clothes, her emotions, her fatigue. At the same time, it evokes the feelings of newly found strength and peace.
The year 1991. A hot summer night. Lithuania-Belarus border. It is nearly dawn. There are two customs wagons on the roadside. One of them has been burnt down. In the other one, border guards sit in silence. Someone opens the door without knocking.
"Where the last house faded away in the wheat, there lived a little girl, who walked at night out in the fields, with a bucket of water to mirror the moon." It's a true story based on Tonino Guerra's poem, about a girl who lives in a remote Lithuanian village. This single farm holds her entire...
Emilė always lives ten steps ahead: she knows how things should be. That doesn't help her on an awkward date - a poker party where everyone lives in the moment.
We follow Roberta's transition from youth to adulthood. It is an intimate portrait of a person who is floating in time and space, without finding purpose in life. She doesn't want to be bothered by society, but cannot deny that she's dependent on it.
