Caravan

Forty-five-year-old Ester is entirely consumed by caring for her son David, who suffers from severe intellectual disability. A trip to visit friends in Italy becomes an opportunity to escape the grinding routine — yet the change of scenery does not alter the fact that life with David is not easy.

Ester impulsively decides to start up an old caravan that was meant to serve as their holiday home, and transforms it into an instrument of freedom. The journey through sunny Italy becomes healing for them both: Ester rediscovers within herself, if only for a moment, the person who has the right not only to give love but also to receive it.

An intimate road movie that, after more than thirty years, brought Czech feature film back to the screens of the Cannes Festival, touches with tenderness and unsparing honesty on themes of physicality and soul, freedom and surrender, hope and helplessness.