Jela Hasler

Paris, 2017: While the new president is being elected, the state of emergency lingers. It sneaks through the capital, on the lookout for old and new monuments to make its own. As the city struggles to regain its innocence, it gently slips its way into everyday life and seeps into the constitution.

June 2020, Corona, one year after the national women's strike. Six directors dive into the everyday life of six women and explore what it means to be a woman in today's Switzerland.

Laurianne is waiting for her work colleague to pick her up – and for the result of her pregnancy test. While she tries to cope with her everyday life, she starts to struggle. Not with the decision of what to do, but with this responsibility that her body brings with it. And the question of how alone she is with it.

Summertime in a city. The coolness of a morning swim in the river quickly vanishes as the heat exacerbates insignificant daily nuisances. As Eli tires to escape the narrowness and agitation of the city, she keeps on facing aggression. Her rage starts to build up.

In a dry, barren landscape, a herd of cattle is grazing, accompanied by dogs, looked after by cowboys. Step by step the seemingly peaceful place starts to prove fallacious to the viewer - while the cows end their day as it begun.