It’s a beautiful summer day. A stressed-out mother is stuck indoors in a phone queue while her daughters are outdoors letting their imaginations carry them away in play and dance. Animals and greenery are the only audience. Life is what happens while we’re busy making other plans. “Please hold.”
Lola Woody Duell
Aurora Woody Duell
Theodora Högbergh
Sofia Rössner
Anna Parrow
Mother
Ingela Ursäter
Phone voice
It’s a beautiful summer day. A stressed-out mother is stuck indoors in a phone queue while her daughters are outdoors letting their imaginations carry them away in play and dance. Animals and greenery are the only audience. Life is what happens while we’re busy making other plans. “Please hold.”
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