Synopsis

Eccentric psychologist, Elisaveta Petrova, has hidden love of painting but her childhood trauma inhibits her from pursuing a career in the arts. Resentful to turning her back on her dream she tries to cure her own fears by devising experimental therapy sessions with other blocked artists but her life takes an unexpected turn when former child-prodigy painter, Oliver, joins her therapy group.

Director’s Statement

Sometimes we need the colour to come to us… Sometimes we have to open ourselves and let it in – to fill the white canvas with strokes of dreams and harmony, and leave a mark of our life in the gallery of timelessness. Sometimes we just need therapy. An inner therapy that starts from the deep layers of consciousness, similar to the mixing of paints.

The story resembles an unfinished painting. A moment in life that is painted, but the author is someone else, not us. Perhaps fate mixes the colors and charts the life’s path, but one more brush stroke can always be added. As Elisaveta says „This is the outlet“. In other words, to pick up the brush and finish what we started, as artists of our own lives.

Despite the stain of fears, pain and unrealised dreams, there is also room on the canvas for what makes us happy. We only have to wish for it and realize that our time is limited, that every second forward is a second less. The arrows spin faster and faster, and their sounds pierce through us.

Stanislav Hristov, Director