Fernanda Lippi

A fading movie star, fresh from a rejection for a starring role, is drugged and photographed by her devious and self-serving girlfriend, an aspiring photographer she nurtured. The images, displayed at a high-profile London galley, shatter the actors’ dignity. She digs deep to turn the tables.

In the North London neighbourhood of Crouch End, Marguerite and Joseph bury their mutual attraction beneath friendly conversations and pleasant walks. Finally determined to have their love exist out in the open no matter the consequences, Marguerite decides to take a dramatic step out of her bittersweet misery.

A rhythmically captivating exploration of love and loss at the fin-de-siècle. An amorous relationship between two women abruptly cut short. Dissolving under the impact of the loss of her soul mate, the surviving lover is drawn into the depths of mid-winter forests, into spheres of the subconscious, initiated by unknown forces. There is no return. The stream-of-consciousness narration, a collage of poetic fragments, features words by 16th century lesbian poet Katherine Philips, 19th century fin de siècle poets Renée Vivien and Algernon Charles Swinburne whose agnostic, visionary poetry lend the film a hypnotic quality.