Many of Perla's actions can be understood. Not all of them, though. She is an artist and a mother, she loves two men and has rebelled against a regime; when she makes a decision, it is based on her gut feeling – and most of all, it is her own decision. In her second feature film, PERLA, Alexandra Makarová has created a powerful and ambivalent character who takes us back to the times of the Iron Curtain and reminds us of the worlds separated only by a shallow little river on the Austrian border, and the ways of life it managed to prevent and destroy.