She Who Was No More. Fernand Ravinel can no longer bear the suffocating life his wife Mireille imposes on him in their modest house in Enghien, north of Paris. He allows himself to be persuaded by his mistress, the doctor Lucienne, to kill his unbearable wife.
What do you think he sees. What happens when you bring a stray dog home? You feel like you’ve saved him. But what does he think about it? He declares war on you. Perhaps because the country you live in is actually at war, and suddenly everyone’s lives are filled with constant tension and movement. You begin to realize that the dog didn’t need this at all. He could have lived peacefully on the grounds of a bankrupt factory. But you decided to rescue him. And so you have no choice but to ask how he perceives the situation and repeat, along with the heroes of Alena Machoninová’s novel-essay: “What do you think he sees?”
The Steppe. In the hot summer of 2010, when the European part of Russia was engulfed by fires, a 20-year-old girl arrives from Siberia to meet her father, whom she hasn’t seen for ten years. Together they set off on a long journey in his truck and their destination is the untamed steppe in the south of the country. The father, who considers this inhospitable expanse his home and only possession, would like to share it with his grown daughter. However, the taiga-born girl is rather frightened by the open landscape and finds it strange.
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