The film opens on something you've lived through but never seen rendered this honestly: children learning to break in real time. It doesn't narrate the damage or explain the psychology. It just watches what happens when small people absorb the weight of adult failure through walls and closed doors. By the end, you realize the film was never about the parents at all. It was about the exact moment a child stops believing the world is safe.
Children wake to the sound of their parents arguing. As the film goes on, the grown-ups' everyday behavior begins to shape how the children act, and their conduct shifts little by little in response to what goes on around them at home. A quiet psychological slice of life, it keeps its attention on ordinary moments in a household under strain and on how the adults' conduct gradually rubs off on the young ones.
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