Sophie (11) and her dad Calum (31), spend vacation together after him living apart from both their hometown. In this beautifully made film, we find ourselves inside of a memory, as some images feel like a grasp of something that happened. There's an inherent feeling of strong emotions happening through all the scenes, as if we got to be inside of Sophie's bones and skin, feeling her shivers as she moves through the world that's still not fully made for her. Both of them feel the loss of love, Calum with his past partners and Sophie for a still young desire of being part of the dynamics that adults and teenagers do, such as kissing or drinking, and some troubles with her mother that are slightly pointed out at the beggining of the film. I felt like Sophie had a nostalgic look at things that made me think she probably felt in a way the loss of her dad, wanting to capture their moments through the DV camera, as if that would be the last time they'd be this young and close.
There's a constant mirroring through each other:
''I have never broke any bones'' Sophie says. Calum nods and agrees as a metaphor of how much he's been through and knowing she still has a lot of time.
As they're laying on the bed, Calum tells her that, as she's young, she still has a lot of time ahead to live anywhere and to be anything she wants to. He wishes he still had that sime amount of time ahead him.
In many moments captured with the tape, the camera passes from one's hands to the other, recording each respectively. Everything that happens to him gets into Sophie's reality when she's older. Some moments share symbolically this transfer of generational emotions and wounds, as the moment she gets his glasses to see through them, or when she imitates him phisically.