Sonia arrives in Trinidad with her two children to join her husband Jo who is working as an oil engineer. On the surface she lives a life of luxury in a large houses with servants. The days are uneventful and blend together into an everlasting holiday, where the women nurse their superficial relationships over cocktails poolside – the perfect climate for self-delusion.
Acting
Line Verndal's submerged panic beneath perfect composure.
Cinematography
Paradise so suffocating you'll never trust a pool again.
Direction
Sødahl's surgical eye for the rot beneath luxury.
Director
Maria Sødahl
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sødahl shot this between her own cancer diagnosis and treatment, explaining its raw interrogation of presence versus absence.
The film quietly indicts Norwegian oil industry's extraction mentality—mirroring how Sonia extracts meaning from a colonized paradise.
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