With visions of a peaceful Easter vacation ahead of her, the recently widowed Dali arrives with her eight-year-old son Pepe and new boyfriend Chávez at their nostalgically dilapidated hotel complex. While she tries to be both a loving mother and caring partner, her inner misgivings and silent grief start subtly to edge her out of both these roles. Pepe, who doesn’t trust the new member of the family and doesn’t yet know how to share his mother’s attention, decides to spend his time as he chooses and, like the uneasy Chávez, sets off on his own holiday adventure. As this understated film by debuting director Alejandra Márquez Abella shows, a carefree environment promising peace and relaxation can often prompt us to contemplate and rethink our existing attitudes. The filmmaker’s capacity to convey the unexpressed thoughts and feelings of her characters, and her faithful depiction of the wistfully fervent atmosphere that surrounds them, are among the chief assets of this deftly narrated film, which has thus far been screened at the Toronto IFF and SXSW.