Italy, 1997. When Clara and Irène, both 17, meet they are nothing like each other but get on marvellously well. They run away together to a faraway island off the coast of Sicily to live their summer freely, and to hide from a reality they want to forget.

My Summer With Irène

Eighteen-year-old Arsa lives at the edge of the world. The island she loves and has always lived on is a natural reserve, and her job is to collect the trash that the sea has washed up. Inspired by her father's sculptures, Arsa remodels the objects that she finds, giving them a new life. Her days pass in a time suspended between her universe of monsters and statues lost on the seabed, and humanity that she stares at from afar. When Andrea and his friends arrive on the island and invade her territory, the spell is broken.