Young artist and mother Ieva follows her lover Vadim to a small Lithuanian town and together they create musical performance "The Robot and the Butterfly". While her daughter stays with grandparents, young artists meet creative challenges that sour their relationship. And Ieva starts questioning if her passion and art is worth sacrificing relationship with her daughter.

biografia

Gailė Garnelytė (1987) graduated screenwriting at Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Since 2013 she has been actively working in the field of screenwriting, writing for different short films, TV series and programmes. She is also screenwriter, script supervisor for Lithuanian documentary films, including IDFA winner of the best student film Final Destination (dir. R. Marcinkus). Gaile’s first short documentary film The Robot and The Butterfly (2021) traveled for more than 20 different film festivals and won the two awards of the best documentary film. At the moment she is directing a feature documentary film I Met a Man which was funded by Lithuanian Film Centre.

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