Ada, a young Black woman, goes swimming in the Icelandic sea and reflects on her experience of having a baby in a country that feels nothing like home. As she enters the freezing water, she relives her traumatic pregnancy and postnatal depression. She tries to find ease and healing by facing her fears in the wild.

Filmmaker: Fan Sissoko is a French-Malian artist and designer based in Reykjavik. Living at the intersection of multiple cultures, she is interested in creating experiences that urge us to shed the layers of identity that separate us from others and to explore the hidden emotions that connect us instead. Storytelling is at the core of her practice. Her work has been commissioned by the Migration Museum, the Museum of London, the Science Gallery Dublin and the National Trust London. Her latest documentary, We The People (2019), has won the Film Futures Awards as part of Little Wing Film Festival 2020. In her work as a participatory designer, she partners with charities and the public sector to involve citizens in the design and delivery of health and care services.