Alice Nellis’ second feature film turns a family-trip into a whimsical psychodrama that will make you laugh and cry: grandmother Valerie wants to bury her son, who died in the Czech Republic, in Slovakian soil. On the way there, longstanding conflicts between her, her daughterin-law and her two grown-up granddaughters emerge – but they are not the only problems the family battles on their trip to the home-country: some tragicomic inner conflicts of the former Czechoslovakia, now fractured by a border, are also laid open…
Alice Nellis’ second feature film turns a family-trip into a whimsical psychodrama that will make you laugh and cry: grandmother Valerie wants to bury her son, who died in the Czech Republic, in Slovakian soil. On the way there, longstanding conflicts between her, her daughterin-law and her two grown-up granddaughters emerge – but they are not the only problems the family battles on their trip to the home-country: some tragicomic inner conflicts of the former Czechoslovakia, now fractured by a border, are also laid open…