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Sarah, 40, is a nurse at the Children’s Health Center in Halissa, a multi-ethnic and poverty neighborhood. For two years, Sarah tries to get pregnant. Her desire for a child is intertwined with the difficulties of a young mother until they reach an illusionary solution– the impossible gift of a baby.
A young man secretly watches his beautiful neighbour through binoculars. When she leaves the building, he follows her into the street and even into a grocery store, buying milk just to have an excuse to be there. Later we see that his refrigerator is already full of milk. After he is injured in a car accident, he finds himself in a train carriage in a strange realm between life and death. There he meets an older man who explains the rules of this new world. He also encounters the woman he loves – someone with whom he can finally connect. Yet he longs to leave this place and return to his life.
This is the story of three sensitive teens who are forced to deal with violence at home, violence at school. It is a story of friendship, of love and hate, where the adolescents world is revealed as cruel and beautiful, a world where the desire to die or kill and the will to live are very confused but finally define the fate of the three heroes.
