Chara' loves her family, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. A hesitant friendship with a shy and defiant girl inexorably forces her to confront her existential angst and face a painful past that she's been trying to forget.

In a small eel-farming town in the west of Greece, two women live solitary lives while dreaming of getting away. Elisabeth is a once-ambitious policewoman forced to relocate from Athens ten years ago and now living a joyless, hung-over life;...