Fading

If elderly women formed a line and asked them to remove their clothes, you would not see anything beneath their garments; just emptiness starting from below the neck and ending above the knees, where the legs reappear. The disappearance of this space does not interest anyone, they do not write about it in the newspapers, nor mention it online, not even in books that usually capture the world's oddities from time to time. Every day, tons of bones, tissues, and hundreds of hectares of blood evaporate! Yet, neither the police intervene nor discuss it in parliament, and no protests are organized about it. The utmost response to this unprecedented loss is a forgiving smile. Maria, a sixty-year-old widow, feels on her daughter’s wedding night that she has lost her forever, and she tries to regain herself in a world that is about to ignore her. Meanwhile, her daughter Rosa prepares for her role as a mother, and her mother discovers her from a different perspective. Clara Vlaskova narrates poetically and with great boldness the relationship between mothers and daughters, with its hidden struggles, and the relationship between mother and woman, to reveal what is concealed in the body and left unspoken.