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Unwellness

Original title: Unwellness
Participated in: MIDPOINT Shorts 2024-2025

Rigid, middle-aged Ildikó is in a spa hotel for her accounting training when a full-of-life hearing-impaired woman unexpectedly awakens her long-dormant sensuality, disrupting her previously assumed identity.

ILDIKÓ (52) is a prominent accountant whose comfort zone is numbers, where everything is precisely calculated, unlike with people, who she distances herself from. Ever since her divorce 10 years ago, her sexual life has become non-existent, and she’s given up trying to change it. Until an accountancy training at a spa hotel in the countryside brings her back to sensuality. 

The person who ignites the long-dormant desire in Ildikó is ODETT (38), a hearing-impaired woman working at the hotel. At their first encounter, gentle and attentive Odett gives Ildikó an impulse that is able to break her rigidity. The reserved Ildikó and friendly Odett seem like opposites, yet the chemistry between them is so strong they feel an urge to be close. 

Ildikó must learn to communicate by touch to talk to Odett, but also resolve her broken relationship with her own body to experience intimacy. But can she also find the courage to admit she's attracted to a woman?

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