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Divorced Pin-Wen and her teenage daughter Xiao Jing are forced to quarantine in their apartment home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The confinement takes its toll on their relationship and the health of Pin-Wen, who's mental decline obliges Xiao to take on more responsibility for the family.

A group of residents in the small Argentine town of Villa Alsina join forces and plan to infiltrate an underground vault and retrieve the money that they invested into an agricultural co-op that was stolen from them a year earlier by a lawyer during the country's economic crisis.

In Eastern Ukraine, a war is being fought on many fronts. On the one hand, there is an open armed conflict. On the other, there are killings and robberies on a massive scale perpetrated by separatist gangs. But as fake identities and “post-truth” realities take hold, the effects of propaganda and manipulation may prove most devastating of all.

Hana lives alone since the death of her husband, and though her two sons often visit her with their families, they frequently end up quarreling. One day, Hana saves a man from drowning, and he introduces her to ice swimming and its welcoming community. As they grow closer, she gains a new lust for life.

When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's worlds are shattered and the women are torn between their commitment to the patriarchal rules and being true to themselves. A tender and vulnerable film about a mother and daughter who have only each other in a brutally unjust society.