Surfaces

After her mother discovers her relationship with Dana, Maya undergoes electroshock conversion therapy and starts to hallucinate.

There was light and it was brutal. The shadows could not heal. The Boy had fallen into sleep. The Girl was recalling and the sand was everywhere.

A brother and a sister struggle in order to find money for their mothers chemotherapy.

Hermetically sealed and sunk in non-chronological qualities of time, the experience of the wound is always relived torturously, quoting a series of dualities: immobility-movement, inactivity-activity, absence-presence, alienation-proximity, pain-pleasure. Seven long takes represent the wound as something that probably pre-exists and then takes place in an (anti-)erotic situation.

The Girl follows her simulation on paths between hills, until the sun leaves her. In this poetic monologue she realizes her weaknesses to get away from the cave of herself.

Afe lives with his father. There seem to be problems communication at home. Afe plays rugby in a local club. There seem to be communication problems with them his teammates. Afe wants to prove he is good in front of his coach. They seem to exist communication problems between them. Afe is struggling to maintain his composure.