The Time Between Two Tours
A tour guide and a restorer meet outside the same museum every Thursday, but disagree over whose story deserves time.
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A tour guide and a restorer meet outside the same museum every Thursday, but disagree over whose story deserves time.
After a televised confession, the whole town celebrates a devoted husband. In the editing room, one woman recognizes the lines she once heard at her own dinner table.
Two passengers on the night bus get to know each other through brief rides, until a shift change removes their shared time.
Two friends on a short trip realize that their care for each other has long exceeded ordinary friendship.
Two strangers are left outside a cinema with no screening and spend the evening discussing endings they hadn't expected.
At a recreational dance course, two beginners discover that closeness isn't learned by having one person always lead.
A chess player meets an opponent who keeps offering draws until she discovers why he hurries home.
After twenty years of marriage, a couple misses a highway exit and finally leaves behind conversations they know by heart.
Two people who regularly meet among family graves try to know each other beyond the place where they learned to talk.
Neighbors who disagree about a shared rooftop have to save its garden during a storm, along with something they hadn't planned to plant.
Two language students miss an imaginary departure during an exercise, but a real journey forces them to say what they want.
A bookseller thinks a shy customer is leaving her love notes, but one word reveals an unusual misunderstanding.
During a riverbank cleanup, two volunteers argue over a discarded chair, then search for its owner together.
A woman brings a working radio to a repair workshop, but the repairer refuses to charge for a fault that doesn't exist.
A cook and a courier begin sharing lunch because of a mistaken order, but a new job offer changes their small arrangement.
A book-club member refuses to discuss a book she couldn't read, and a librarian offers her an unexpected arrangement.
Two tenants of an almost empty office building share lunch on the stairs until a notice arrives about moving out.
A translator and a sound technician meet because of noise, then have to learn how to hear another person's silence.
A seamstress repairs the coat of a man who keeps losing tickets, but his final instructions do not sound like an ordinary order.
A fan of unsolved-crime stories visits her partner's old family hotel. In a locked wing, she finds a clue she interprets far more dramatically than she should.
Former fiancés work on the same project again, eight years after their breakup. A voice message begins the conversation they left to family advice and pride for too long.
A wedding planner begins arranging her friends' private relationships too. When one mistaken seating plan exposes her assumptions, she must admit what she wants herself.
Sara is convinced a cold restaurant owner destroyed her new acquaintance's career. Documents received after an argument force her to reassess both men.
Bojan believes he is a considerate partner until four different conversations stop him. The last comes from the woman he was certain would stay.
On her way to meet her lover, Irena visits the brother she has not seen in a long time. A quiet afternoon helps her distinguish her own wishes from other people's expectations.
A professor who once led every conversation becomes the husband of a successful writer. At her book launch, he realizes the reversal troubles him more than he wants to admit.
Selma moves for love to a city where everything feels cold. A celebration in an ice hall reveals that what she misses most is a place in their shared plans.
In a motel at night, Damir plans to flee a business fraud and a failed relationship. A woman asking for water brings him back to the decision he has been postponing.
Before his wedding, Dario is known as the man everyone can rely on. His fiancée learns about a moment of panic he has hidden for years, even from himself.
On holiday after her divorce, Ivana lets a hotel present her and her partner as a married couple. A small convenience grows into a web of lies they must escape together.