Losing Faith

In a dark living room, a young woman sinks into the seat of a sofa.
She bids farewell to her domestic duties with the words: "I wish I was a carpet, then I could just lie there!" and leaves her two children Furia and Flippa. In Martha Mechow's experimental debut film, the then 23-year-old director uses words to paint pictures that rhyme, monologue or improvise her account of this event. It is through the diary of her now teenage daughter Flippa that we learn about the incident: unhappily in love, Flippa writes lines to her mother between colourful drawings.
She calls it the: "Heterosexual knot", which binds them together in their unhappiness and prompted big sister Furia to join the small-minded mother-child spa "Barranconi".
 A place where pregnant bellies become trojan horses and two young men become the undoing of all.
 The anxious road user tells of the pain of a protagonist who loves what love cannot save in as small a way as 720×576 pixels.