“An action is causally connected if it cannot be thought away without the specific outcome ceasing to exist,” says Eva, a young prosecutor, quoting the cold logic of law texts. How does it apply to your life, your couple and your longing for motherhood? Drifting in the city from encounter to another, Eva confronts all the images of romantic and parental love that society has established as the status quo. Does she need this to be herself?

German director Staab films her protagonist in quiet, delicate and Kieślowski-like sketches that contrast with the burning, topical questions raging inside. According to Staab, Eva is “forced to ask herself what her own and learned desires are and to question the images that we try to live up to”. The result is a beautiful aloofness – Eva looks like a distant observer, of others, of herself. The spectator can’t help enjoying the view.