Czech Republic
Lance, an optometrist in his sixties, listens to audio-books in his solitude. When the last CD stops in the middle, he is forced to reconnect to his long-forgotten past in order to solve the problem.
This short film about life after the loss of a loved one deals with a difficult topic, using techniques of both live-action and animated film. Real experiences of the narrators are combined with animated sequences reconstructing painful situations, looking into the thoughts of three young people untimely exposed to death.
A quiet young girl has a dispute with her mother. She decides to enter the monastery to become a nun. Upon her arrival, she is given a new name, Maria, and a mysterious past is brought out along the way revealing the history behind her rebellious acts.
On a tense journey with his wife and daughter, a weary husband struggles to keep his fraying family together. But as the storm clouds gather, he looks to give up the shelter of their car.
Marek is a young boy who witnesses a violent attack in a bus. He is able to shoot the whole incident on his cell phone, but his fear and conscience prevent him from doing the right thing.