"Sepia Landscape" is a Japanese-Polish production based on the famous novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Prize winner, premiered in the official selection of the Cannes festival. The film directed by Kei Ishikawa is a story full of tension and understatement about family secrets, memory traps and the fragile bond between mother and daughter. Niki, a twenty-five-year-old writer raised in Great Britain, visits her mother Etsuko in the English countryside. The pretext is the sale of the family home, but behind the seemingly ordinary meeting there is a need to ask questions that have remained unspoken for years. Niki knows little about her mother's Japanese past, about post-war Nagasaki, from which Etsuko left for Great Britain, or about the circumstances in which her older daughter Keiko left Japan with her. Etsuko's confessions are full of gaps, avoidances and silences; each memory can be both a trail leading to the truth and a veil protecting against painful memory.