Two Fish (2015)

Two Fish is the story of two kids and their creative way of dealing with situations of conflict. The two young brothers, Max and Lucas, are suffering under the divorce of their parents. One day, when the kids spend a day at the beach, a fisherman gives them two fish that they are allowed to keep in the bathtub for a day. The kids start to play with the fish and try to imagine a life as a fish, living peacefully underwater and having a muted perception of their surroundings. When their father shows up during dinner and loses his temper in his desperate need to see his sons, the kids spontaneously decide to dive into an imaginary underwater world. As the days pass, they also start to notice that their mother is becoming increasingly more unconcentrated, seemingly overwhelmed by the conflict with their father. Anxious that they are going to lose their father over the divorce, Max and Lucas pose questions about presence and absence and the meaning of death. Max ends up being convinced that the absence of the fish can be seen as an equivalent to the absence of their father and desperately starts searching for traces of the fish.