Falls is A short film set between the Neolithic and Protoceltic eras in Continental Europe, using the metaphor of a fisherwoman on the path to adulthood who overcomes her fear of water as a means to discuss the balance between control and uncertainty in adult life.
CWM (pronounced kuːn), a young woman on the eve of maturity, has tasked herself with finding food for her village at the tail end of a bitterly cold winter. Though inexperienced and terribly afraid of water, she arms herself with a net and follows a fish down river. Coming to what seems to be a dead end as the water forms a whirlpool against a rocky cliff face, she is about to give up when the moist earth beneath her feet crumbles and she slips in. Whipped away from the water’s edge, she manages to catch hold of a rock, but with no other prospects, her future looks grim. She can either cling to the rock and freeze, or let go and submit herself to the uncertainty of the water.