Eugenia Mumenthaler

It is summer in a small village in south-eastern Spain. A storm threatens to cause the river that runs through it to overflow again. A popular old belief claims that some women are predestined to disappear with each new flood, because they have the “water inside”. A band of young people is trying to overcome the weariness of a summer in the village that smells of death by smoking, dancing, and lusting after each other. In this electric atmosphere that precedes the storm, Ana and José live a love affair until the storm bursts.

Yvan De Wiel, a private banker from Geneva, is going to Argentina in the midst of a dictatorship to replace his partner, the object of the most worrying rumors, who disappeared overnight. Between hushed lounges, swimming pools, and gardens under surveillance, a remote duel takes place between two bankers who, despite different methods, are the accomplices of a discreet and merciless form of colonization.

In the South of Spain, a multicolored pigeon race will be won not by the fastest bird, but the one who will be able to seduce a female pigeon and fly alongside her the longest.

The key to the communal laundry room in the block of flats on the Rue de Genève 85 in Lausanne serves a much greater function than merely unlocking the door. This encounter between a symbol of typical Swiss mentality with a penchant for order and the tenants who have been housed here by the city’s social services department is not something to be taken for granted. Although the laundry room is normally located in the cellar, the tenants in this building share a tiny laundry room off the entrance hall because the cellar is reserved for prostitution. To maintain order and cleanliness, the landlord hires Claudina, a new “laundry woman”.

여름날의 부에노스아이레스, 나른하지만 날이 선 분위기가 감도는 집에서 세 자매 마리나, 소피아, 비올레타가 하루를 시작한다. 사실 얼마 전, 세 자매를 돌보아 주었던 할머니가 세상을 떠났다. 세 자매는 함께, 또한 각자의 방식으로 할머니의 빈자리를 채우며 삶을 이어 간다. 그러던 어느 날, 비올레타가 말도 없이 집을 떠나 버린다. 상실과 부재로 인한 혼란과 불안을 극복하며 삶의 새로운 장으로 나아가려는 세 자매의 이야기를 그리고 있다.