The vicissitudes of the very young Regina are told set against the background of the Calabria region presented from an unusual viewpoint. After having prematurely lost her mother, she grows up with her father Luigi with whom she shares a passion for music.
The mutual support and care and the indissoluble bond between the two are put to the test by a traumatic event, which will end up turning upside down and changing their lives.
It is a dramatic interplay between faults, responsibilities, and acquisition of awareness, and also a clash, comparison, and an encounter between generations.

Jérémie, played by Maury himself, is an inexperienced actor. Work, love, and family adversities follow and torment him also in Paris, where he has moved for work, and push him to go back home. Here he has to grapple with his father’s recent suicide and the demanding presence of his mother Bernadette (Nathalie Baye) while he is preparing for an important audition. The queer theme and the conflictual mother-son relationship remind of the last films by Xavier Dolan, including the daring and strongly expressive use of photography rich in pastel colours.

Maryam is a 20-year-old Iranian girl who is forced to lie about her relationship not to have to deal with the rigid rules of her family of origin. She has to pay a high price for her freedom, the price of lies and obstacles, which make her path dangerous.

Ebrahimi’s story tells of the difficult generational gap between parents and children and, in particular, of the problematic life of women in a country such as Iran…and not only there.

Times (modern ones) are tough for fishermen in Cornwall since many were forced to sell their boats to rich capitalists. Fisherman Martin does not have a boat anymore, while his brother Steven has transformed his into a cruise boat, which is a source of tension between the two.

What is striking about the film, even before learning about the plot and story, is how it is shot: it is entirely in black and white, filmed with a hand- cranked 16-mm Bolex camera from the Seventies, perfectly in line with Eisenstein’s style.

The theme of the water and the acting pushed to the extreme of comedy hint at the L’Atalante by Vigo with Michel Simon playing the character of the grumpy fisherman.