For demure young housewife Isa (Daniela Valenciano), life in a lush, postcard-perfect Costa Rican seaside village is far from anyone’s idea of a dream. Pressured by her intrusive and loudly opinionated in-laws to have another baby even as she struggles to keep her already cramped household in order, Isa finds her own desires ignored, suffocated by rigid gender roles and the cloistered thinking that comes with small-town life. Desperately imagining some other way of living as she grows increasingly tense and angry towards those closest to her, Isa finds herself becoming more attuned to the natural world, and its strangeness, as increasingly vivid and surreal visions take over, blurring the line between what is and what can be. Soon the young mother finds herself at a breaking point, awakening to her own long-suppressed sexuality and the possibilities of a life lived on her own terms in this engrossing and intimate feature debut from writer/director Antonella Sudassasi Furnis.

In competition for the FIPRESCI Prize