On New Year’s Eve, Simone engages in an uncharacteristically impulsive one-night-stand with a handsome stranger. She registers no surprise when she becomes pregnant, but the eagerness with which her lover accepts the news unsettles her. As the two become a couple and she is faced with losing the anonymity of her previous, solitary life, Simone becomes increasingly anxious. Stever rigorously tailors her film to Simone’s point of view, maintaining a placid surface to the film, while allowing quick glimpses of things stirring in the depths, even as it remains difficult to say what those things might be. Which is worse: if Simone has met the man of her dreams, or if she hasn’t? – DP