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Giulia looks to a future in which all the inherited heaviness from the female line of her family has been cast aside. She stumbles out of the family home that has made her heart square and follows the shimmering summer flirtation of a queer crew to Italy.

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Directed by: Julia Fuhr Mann
Written by: Julia Fuhr Mann
Produced by: Philipp Diettrich
Sara Woldeslassie

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