A sprint on premiere day. “Look! This is all yours. It’s all yours. Just run. Hold out your hand, Miru. Take it! Run faster!” a voice in her head whispers to start the day. The assistant director’s day is destined to unfold in a series of unfortunate and unlucky episodes: buying metal hair curlers, taking her three-year-old daughter to her grandmother’s, taking an actress who is having panic attacks to an interview. And then Kaspics, one of the main actors in the performance, disappears. Miru has nothing left — a day to live, a premiere to save.

Ieva Norvele’s situation comedy is based on a short story published in 2014 by the writer Inga Gaile — it introduces a young, ambitious girl’s desire to prove herself in the face of the unpredictability of the performing arts environment and the mathematical intransigence of chance. Norvele starred in Gyӧrgy Kristóf’s feature film Out (2017), which was screened at the Cannes Un Certain Regard competition, and wrote the screenplay for his film Zenith (2022). Norvele’s short film was presented at the Talents and Short Film Market and features a wide range of well-known Latvian artists and actors, including Elīna Hanzena, Elita Kļaviņa, Ģirts Šolis, Andris Freidenfelds and many others.