So how did all of these references get blended together in his first feature? Through the splitting of a suicidal plot into two separate moments. “The film’s initial setting is a reference to the Aokigahara forest in Japan – reportedly a popular place for locals with suicidal instincts,” Lopes told Cineuropa. From that starting point, he wrote the story of an old man, devastated by his daughter’s death, who heads into a forest to commit suicide. Once in the wild, he meets a young girl who is apparently there with the same intention. An unexpected bond between them ends up leading to conversations that eventually unveil their pasts and the reasons that led them to such a drastic decision.