The movie starts with the return of Ahmad from Tehran. It’s been 4 years and he has returned at the request of his wife Marie who he is separated from to finalise their divorce proceedings. During his stay Ahmed discovers how strained Marie and her daughter Lucie have become and his efforts to help calm the situation brings out some big secrets.
The acting and script is brilliant and my only complaint would be that the story moved a little too slow at times and really did not need to. It was raw and dealt was some very relevant issues of today. Divorce, new partners, ex partners and the ones who suffer the most…the children and more often than not do not really understand what is going on or why it’s going on.
The scenes where Ahmed and the new boyfriend meet for the 1st time is so well played and so realistic. Marie is a women with 2 children, pregnant with another who is in love with a man who has his own son and wants to get divorced so she can re marry. However her boyfriend is still married to a women who has been in a coma for 10 months and not sure how to deal with all of this especially with Ahmed’s return bringing issues to the fore. Certain situations bring them together but others almost destroy them.
