Incendies

“The search began at the opening of their mother's will.”

A notary reads Nawal's (Lubna Azabal) will to her adult children, Jeanne and Simon (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette), with instructions that unmake their understanding of who she was. Villeneuve moves between the present and Nawal's past in a war-torn country, where her silences begin to fracture. By the time her children learn what she has asked them to do, the woman they thought they knew has become a stranger.