Explores the fragile choreography of connection and detachment, through a moment of social rupture in a public park. A woman’s voice recounts a story that unfolds alongside a single, tremulous image: a table and two stools in the snow – abandoned, or expectant – filmed by an unsteady hand.
Explores the fragile choreography of connection and detachment, through a moment of social rupture in a public park. A woman’s voice recounts a story that unfolds alongside a single, tremulous image: a table and two stools in the snow – abandoned, or expectant – filmed by an unsteady hand.
A nameless drifter navigates a barren landscape punctuated by satellite dishes, radio towers and droning airplanes. Stopping periodically in anonymous hotel rooms, she makes attempts to connect to an unidentified second party.
An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.
After Margaret, a divorcée living in Dublin, loses her teenage son, she develops an unorthodox relationship with Joe, a homeless youth. Their tentative trust is threatened by his involvement with a violent gang and the escalation of her ex-husband's grieving rage.
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.
Single dad Richard meets Christine, a starving artist who moonlights as a cabbie. They awkwardly attempt to start a romance, but Richard’s divorce has left him emotionally damaged. Meanwhile, Richard’s sons—one a teenager, the other 6-years-old—take part in clumsy experiments with the opposite sex.
Two drifters bum around, visit earthy women and discuss opening a car wash in Pittsburgh.
Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
In 1856, two women forge a close connection despite their isolation on the American frontier.