Chara' loves her family, and yet she sometimes ponders a life without them. A hesitant friendship with a shy and defiant girl inexorably forces her to confront her existential angst and face a painful past that she's been trying to forget.

Elpida, a middle-aged housewife, is trapped in the misery of an oppressive loveless marriage, with a man who has no consideration for her feelings and needs. Her monotonous life is disrupted when a young painter is employed to paint the...