Igor and Pina deeply desire each other, but they are not free. She decides to make a lion costume for her child. He decides to buy a copying machine for his wife. Spring will come to liberate them, filling their lives with passion and guilt.
Taratoa Stappard’s brooding debut feature plunges us into the dour moors of 1859 North Yorkshire, where the British Empire’s reach casts long and twisted shadows. Mary Stevens (Ariāna Osborne), a young Māori teacher from Aotearoa (New Zealand), arrives in search of family truths, only to find the man who summoned her already dead and no clear path home. Stranded in an unfamilia...