Aleksandrs Aleksandrovs

Ukrainian refugees who've found shelter in Latvia talk about what home means to them. The audio of the interviews is combined with shots of an abandoned Latvian country house, creating a meta-image of home.

Schwamme Jr., a perfectionist inventor, lives in sterile isolation, haunted by his father’s legacy as the creator of the sponge. When a construction crew arrives to relocate his house, his obsessive order collides with outside chaos, triggering a surreal chain of events that forces him to confront the futility of control.