Mila, a young pianist, tries to prepare for an audition abroad but her brother, Niki, keeps distracting her with his annoying talent for the absurd. Todor, their astrophysicist father, seems unable to deal with his children’s anxieties. A family portrait during their last summer together.

A prizewinner at Locarno, this first fiction feature from Bulgaria’s Ilian Metev (Sofia’s Last Ambulance) is an enormously impressive and precise portrait of a family’s slow separation. A true feat of naturalism, produced after extensive workshopping with non-professional actors