Marion Jhöaner

On a beautiful summer day, Sven is hiking with his family and loses his niece in the forest while they are playing hide and seek. He finds the girl drowning in the lake below and rescues her from the brink. Relieved, he holds her tightly to him just as Astrid, the au pair, appears.

Sam lives a toxic relationship with his mother. Both live at an age when their bodies change and evolve, between discovery and dread of their own femininity.

Witness and explore a whole range of emotions and desires in this series of stories about the lesbian experience. From rediscovering a lost parent in Israel, coming of age in rural Appalachia, finding love in friendship through meditation and imagination, to fending off the competition in a boot-making contest in New Mexico - what Upon Her Lips proves is that variety is the spice of life.

The young Kiara lives with her mother Ariane. They both share a secret which has been buried for years. When Nathan, the son of Ariane's partner moves in, the secret comes to the surface.