
Two storylines involving artists in lockdown intersect in this South African drama about creativity, mindfulness and wellbeing. Jabu is an ambitious auteur plagued by demons, who accepts a place on the jury at a film festival in Johannesburg so he can be closer to his young son. He has been clean for months now, and is working on the side as part of the scriptwriting team for the most popular soap in South Africa. All with the aim of becoming the father he previously failed to be. Roxanne is a filmmaker on the verge of her international breakthrough, struggling with an unwanted pregnancy – which in South Africa cannot legally be terminated.
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Twenty-year-old Lera Meshcherikova has a difficult relationship with her mother. Father, grandmother and aunt Olga love Lera, but because of their indecision and lack of will, the girl has to defend her choice on her own. Tatiana cannot accept that her daughter is marrying a guy from a poor family, Denis, and in her heart tells Lera that she is the adopted daughter of the Meshcherikovs. Lera goes to live with Denis, and gradually her life gets better.: she puts up with her father, who gets Denis a job, the guy happily accepts the news that he will soon have a child, and Tatiana has to come to terms with her daughter's marriage. But Leroux is gnawing at the thought that she must find her own mother — only then will she be able to sort herself out. If the girl had known that she would have to pay very dearly for this...

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