There was once a turbulent river with a small red brick factory on each bank. On one side, a girl with flour in her black hair works in the dry pasta department. On the other side works a boy who knows the secret recipe for the tastiest tomato sauce. One day they run into each other. A few years later they long for a child.
A couple goes through a fertility process in a hospital without a lab. The man is given the task of transporting 'the harvested eggs' to the lab. On the way, he gets stuck in the Craeybeckx tunnel with an empty gas tank. He checks the distance to the lab and decides to start running.
Wanda: 'I was already gently saying goodbye to the idea of becoming a mother again. How do you stop wanting something? What is a life without desire? Stopping wanting, how do you do that? What is actually the past tense of desire, remembering?'