Matías Piñeiro draws on classical literature to make films that depict the modern world with distinctive techniques. The story in this film unfolds as contemporary women research, perform, and interpret the tragic love story of the Ancient Greek poet Sappho and the siren goddess Britomartis, as depicted in a chapter titled “Sea Foam” in the Italian novelist Cesare Pavese’s 1947 book Dialogues with Leucò. It is an experimental work that challenges the original story and the viewer alike through timeless themes of identity and sexuality, documenting Sappho’s fragmentary characteristics in the form of a visual poem and bringing her myth to vivid life.

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