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Coping with her mother’s fast-metastasizing cancer, a young son she’s raising without a partner, and corruption charges against her at work, Silvia is pushed to the verge of despair, if not a breakdown. A naturalistic melodrama, of pointed dialogues and light-footed camera work, which nails the unconstrained flow of life. A tender portrait of a brave woman’s struggle to stay afloat even when everything around her drugs her down. A low-key sonata that does not resort to emotional outbursts, but flourishes in its precisely rendered snapshots of dignity and self-awareness.