29-year-old Ilona and her boyfriend have just moved into a new apartment in a block of flats. When the building’s renovation begins soon afterwards and she befriends Oleg, one of the Ukrainian construction workers, her idyllic notions of a fulfilling life as she approaches thirty start to crumble, like the old plaster on the walls.
Acting
Jakštaitė's stillness holds entire emotional earthquakes.
Cinematography
Cracked plaster as character—architecture of decay.
Direction
Urbonaitė wields negative space like a weapon.
Director
Gabrielė Urbonaitė
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Baltic cinema exploring post-Soviet identity and EU labor migration—think less 'eastern european miserablism,' more precise anthropology of precarity.
The renovation serves as literal and metaphorical device: every wall destroyed reveals hidden infrastructure, just as Ilona's encounters with Oleg expose the rotting foundation of her 'adult' relationship.
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