"What was there before life?" a child asks his mother. The answer is a story. A story the mother tells, illustrated with a series of beautiful and deliberately imperfect prints. And between its cracks, those of the landscapes and images, life emerges. After "They Only Thrown Away," Adrià Pagès and Pepa Catalá move into short form with a fable that is also an ode to motherhood.
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Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...
