An attempt to reconstruct a fragmented memory of the little-known history of migration in the Mediterranean in the form of a transtemporal film journey.

Thirteen-year-old Vera self-harms and ends up in the emergency room. The news of a six-month wait for specialist help devastates her mother. An insurmountable distance seems to have grown between mother and daughter, who are experiencing this difficult situation very differently.

Nina wakes up in the middle of the night and accidentally steps on a spider. According to her father, the little creature's death will bring bad luck. The next day, Nina goes on an excursion to the seaside with her mother and other children. Amid the dunes, she realizes what's troubling her.

Single mother Teresa spends a day at the beach with her six-year-old son, Benji, and his sister Marga, who is back in Portugal for the summer holidays. Her sister's constant nagging about Benji makes this beach day particularly trying for Teresa.

In northern France, where cockfighting is still legal, eighteen-year-old Anaïs finds herself facing a mountain of debt following the death of her father, a former fighting cock breeder. She has no choice but to immerse herself in the world of gallodromes and make her father's last rooster fight.

Ingrid, a single mother living with her daughter and grandmother in a village in eastern Slovakia where Roma are stigmatized, is forced to become the "professional mother" of a young Roma girl in order to survive.

Toni is an orange farmer. He loves them, he cherishes them, they are his treasure. Until the day when, in the valley, strange cargo ships dock. Cargo ships loaded with green oranges.