Lea leaves her student life behind her in London and returns to her native city of Gijón, where her mother still lives. After the death of her husband, her mum is left with no money but she refuses to give up her sophisticated lifestyle. Petty thieving in shops isn’t enough to earn a living, so both women are forced by circumstance to decide what to do with their lives. An Argentinian artist now living in the United States, Amalia Ulman crafted her debut as screenwriter, director and lead actress. She conceived its story as a sparing depiction of a world in which the experience of the everyday is sometimes ironic, at other times banal. Enjoying its world premiere at this year’s Sundance, this tragicomedy tells of personal and social crisis and excels both for its authenticity and its sense of detail.