The chorus resonates universally: "I’ve dreamed of another world, where we live without fear, where tenderness has a place."
I closed the laptop. Outside, the sun was setting over a courtyard that looked nothing like Tashkent. But for a moment, I could almost hear the whir of the fan. The click of Lena’s bracelets on the keyboard. And the little bing of a message that never came.
: The story follows Maïté (Valérie Donzelli), a woman whose life is defined by her husband Vincent's seven-year prison sentence. Her weekly routine of prison visits and laundry is disrupted when she begins an affair with Jean (Cyril Troley), a man she believes is a fellow visitor but is actually a prison guard.
