[Berlinale '24] What stands out in this peculiar B/W vision of the consequences of absence is not so much its narrative as the creation of an atmosphere that establishes a poetic gaze, even when some of the symbologies or political contexts may be more diffuse for a Western viewer. The journey that the protagonist takes to the hydroelectric plant where she wants to scatter her husband's ashes is a journey to the past that is represented by the river as a metaphor for the flow of time. The film builds an absorbing atmosphere that speaks of the past as a way of understanding the present.