Julie Daems

After years of living away from home and leaving a trauma in the past, Emile receives a phone call from his mother prompting him to go back home, there is a secret he shares with his father, Dele, and his mother, Amina.

Manon daydreams about the new customer in her aunt's hair salon. She must be a sea-queen, listening to the heartbeat of her violet whale.

Fedor is a young locksmith in Murmansk, a frozen city in the obscurity of the Russian Arctic. Client after client, he roams through the alleys of concrete animated by a fantasy that isolates him from the city and its population. His dreams corrode his relation to reality and open the door to a phantasmagoric universe; a second sun is rising above the Russian Arctic.

Fragmentary experiences of little Tinus in which direct confrontation with life and suffering is never far away.