Thomas was called in by his boss to for glass of champagne — to celebrate, as it later became apparent, Thomas’s own sacking. Alice was bullied because of her weight by other children. Gabi was profoundly hurt by her own mother during her divorce proceedings. Helga married a man with whom she recreated the emotionally abusive family she herself grew up in. All these stories about the deep wounds inflicted on our psyche by the cruelty of others weave together the complex landscape of invisible traumas that lie beneath our contemporary society. We often prefer to ignore these traumas. But in this film they are presented frontally, in the first person, with no artifice, in a way that suggests that if we can stop to listen to them, to look at them, we may have a chance not necessarily to heal the past but at least to avoid repeating it in the future.