Perfected Grammar / ID / 11’

In Budapest, an elderly Mother (anonymous) teaches her Hungarian-speaking Daughter (anonymous) the difference between the active and passive tenses in the Mother's mother tongue, Indonesian. However, the examples the Mother uses open a wound about the Mother's hurtful relationship with the country. As their little conversations evolve with her broken Indonesian, the Daughter learns what the Mother has been holding in. A walk through the Danube River, a plan to cook something that night, and making do with what's within reach as their Indonesian sinks away in the liveliness of Budapest and we learn the dark history of Indonesia and what caused one of them to lose their "home".