Director’s Statment

I felt the need to make this film during a transitional moment in my life. I have spent years trying to live following precise steps, like walking on a straight line, but that line ends with the conclusion of my studies. In this phase, I confront questions I believe many of us share: Who am I? What is my place in the world? Does it make sense to search for a purpose? I don’t have answers to these questions, and I didn’t want the film to provide them, even if this was sometimes a real challenge.
My goal was to create a space for reflection; a mirror of my own sense of being lost. Discovering Albert Camus’ idea of the absurd gave me a way to express this feeling: the tension between the human need to find meaning and the impossibility of ever having a definitive answer. Dreams, where the absurd becomes natural, immediately felt like the ideal space to explore these ideas. The protagonist, Damien, guided by the voice of his doubts, Ellie, confronts the fears that immobilize him, and his worldview is constantly challenged. Yet the heart of the story is not to find
a single truth; it is to accept doubt, fragility, and the possibility that life may not have a single meaning; in other words, that his “happy place” might not exist.
I strongly believe that cinema, like other forms of art, is not meant to give answers, but to evoke the right questions. I wanted the film to remain personal yet open: those who wish to read between the lines will find existential references, while others may simply experience it as a small, dreamlike journey. For me, above all, it is a reminder that perhaps we don’t need to make sense of everything, and that sometimes it is enough to choose, each day, whether to surrender or to find meaning in the simple things of everyday life.