Vlucht

Synopsis

Mélie is a primary school teacher who believes that control, structure, and clarity are the foundation of good education and life. Her classroom is silent and orderly, but her connections with her students, her partner, and even her dog are brittle, strained, or missing altogether. When her partner suddenly ghosts her without explanation, she’s left confused and frustrated, with no way to make sense of his disappearance. On a walk, she stumbles upon a local pigeon racing club and becomes unexpectedly drawn to the birds: their loyalty, their instinct to stay in formation, their sense of direction.
Across the hallway, her colleague Hannah drowns in noise and chaos, yet something alive happens there.
Mélie looks on with disapproval, but beneath it grows a quiet confusion, and curiosity. She tries to help Hannah, but her own rigidity and quick judgments keep genuine connection out of reach.
Meanwhile, she helps a student named Tito with his handwriting, convinced that structure is what he needs, until he quietly tells her he’s afraid of her. The comment hits her deeper than she expects.
As her usual strategies begin to fail, Mélie finds herself in unfamiliar territory emotionally and physically. Hannah introduces her to a space where people explore their inner lives in silence, and where leadership means allowing rather than directing.