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Synopsis

Julie Bertuccelli’s acclaimed first feature is a charming, bittersweet tale of deception and affection. Three women—strong-willed Eka (90-year-old Esther Gorintin), her long-suffering daughter Marina and rebellious granddaughter Ada (Freeze, Die, Come to Life’s Dinara Droukarova)—live together in contemporary Tbilisi, Georgia. As they weather the routine power and water outages that plague the former Soviet republic, Eka pines for her beloved son Otar, a physician-turned-construction worker in Paris. Marina is as resentful of her mother’s obsession as Ada is supportive, until they receive tragic news from France that will change their lives forever…. Former assistant director to Bertrand Tavernier and Krzysztof Kieslowski, Bertuccelli deftly spins the delicate threads of familial conflict and maternal love into a bewitching tangle of intergenerational duplicity.