Laura (33) is both nervous and excited when she is invited to a festival in Rio de Janeiro. She is a photographer at the beginning of her career, trying her best in all that she does. She lives with her husband in a small apartment in Helsinki. Seemingly, she is doing ok. Yet, some things appear to be out of balance beneath her everyday actions.
On her first night in Rio Laura is robbed in the street. Laura’s reaction is fierce, her personal territory has been violated. Her emotions develop from self-pity and anger into an enthusiastic sense of taking advantage of the situation, of wanting to let go. Her usual, work-oriented, disciplined self is replaced by a new role: a flirting, outspoken and wild behaviour, up to the moment when she is face to face with her own capability of being violent – a moment when she needs to find another way out.
In the end, what she finds is neither a solution nor an answer. Rather, there is a long-awaited possibility for Laura to just be: to breathe, to feel, to perceive.