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Belgian writer/director Fien Trouch follows up her multi-layered 2005 drama Someone Else's Happiness with this nuanced tale of a mother still haunted by the disappearance of her young daughter five years earlier. Ever since her daughter went missing, Grace (Emmanuelle Devos) has lived a life of quiet despair. But as Grace contends with an endless flood of minor absurdities around her apartment complex, her partner Lukas (Bruno Todeschini) has become a helpless victim to his own overwhelming grief. The couple has long since ceased communicating, and when the family dog dies, the despair is too much for Lukas to handle.