Time Is

In Mosul, Nawal takes care of her ailing mother Samia. The mother’s condition gets worse as medicine is no longer available in the city. In the few days she has left, Nawal, her mother and their neighbor share small moments of joy. The ladies sing and dance, they use make-up and make scents, they tell jokes and laugh too hard. In the midst of illness, poverty and war, they manage to transform something dire into something joyful, creating beauty where ugliness strikes.

Sam is a shy young woman who works as a dog caretaker at the animal shelter in Ostend. Her colleague Koen is a dog behavioural therapist, he teaches people about the upbringing of dogs. Sam prefers to stay with the animals and is fully committed to the daily chores at the shelter. But when Sam meets a nervous young woman who struggles with the upbringing of her dog, she decides to help her in her own way.

At her sister's funeral, a young woman is distracted by a something from the woods.

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.

Two ex-traceurs now navigate the sport through drug abuse, after first having fallen into the trap of performance-enhancing drugs.

A Turkish man travels West. In search for his recently deceased sister. She looks at him through cracks in her wooden coffin, while he searches her to say farewell.