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  • Status: Released
  • 17-01-2024
  • Runtime: 84 min
  • Score: 5.737
  • Vote count: 19

Stefan, a migrant construction worker living in Brussels, is planning a trip home to his mother in Romania. In preparing for his voyage, he reconnects with local family members over gifted bowls of homemade soup, interacts with strangers, and discovers a revivifying commune with nature. This leads him to an unexpected connection with Shuxiu, a Chinese-Belgian bryologist studying the local moss.

Stefan Gota

Stefan

Liyo Gong

Shuxiu

Cédric Luvuezo

Cedric

Teodor Corban

Mihai

Saadia Bentaïeb

Saadia

Alina Constantin

Anca

ShuHuan Wang

ShuHuan

Victor Claudio Zichil

Radu

Jovial Mbenga

Jovial

Sanae Khamlichi

Polly

Stella Kitoga

Woman in Bus

Misha van der Werf

Delivery Boy

Bogdan Palie

Mechanic

Giovanni Chiva

Mechanic

Bogdan Sofronea

Construction Worker

Laurent Kumba

Construction Worker

Maaike Neuville

Construction Worker

Joris Van Loon

Construction Worker

Marian Uram

Construction Worker

Hafsa Aqqal

Bus Passenger

Loes Jacobs

Bus Passenger

Chaïmae Sebbar

Bus Passenger

Pilar Verbinnen

Devis, Lien

Ghasem Mousavi

Nurse

Rudy Verbinnen

Smoking Patient

Lien Devos

Subway Passenger

Marianne De Keyser

Subway Passenger

Simon Allemeersch

Subway Passenger

Karim Akalay

Subway Passenger

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Romanian builder "Stefan" (Stefan Gota) is quite adept at making soup! With his holidays looming he is clearing out his fridge and hoping to get his ageing jalopy fixed so he can travel. He is also a bit of an insomniac and wanders the streets at night exploring and cutting a rather lonely figure appearing to have few friends. That is until he is walking along a country path and encounters a lady (Liyo Gong) examining the mosses that grow freely. They have met before - in her aunt's Chinese restaurant, briefly, amidst a thunderstorm and he is intrigued with her scientific endeavours. She explains to him what she is doing and why, informing him that mosses were the first plants ever to grow on the Earth. The next few hours see him diverted from his mission to go collect his car, and for the two to share their afternoon together. Might anything come of it? Well, that's not really the point. Instead, this seems to be a gentle reminder of how much easier, especially when empowered by the power of his vegetable soup, it is for people to engage with easy other or friendly and curious terms. It's a momentary observation of not just human existence, but it also showcases the beauty of nature as it exists amidst our man-made concrete and brick environment. The rain also seems to serve an almost allegorical purpose, wiping the slate clean for another episode in his solitary yet open-minded and friendly life. It is a strangely compelling film to watch. There's no beginning, or end - just a middle, and the two actors deliver plausibly imbuing a certain not easily definable chemistry.