Director: Miranda Jarfi 

Producer: Nadia Jarfi

Contact Information: info@mirandaelizabeth.com & nadiajarfi@gmail.com

Link: https://linktr.ee/cunegondefilm

SYNOPSIS: Miranda is lost — not because she doesn’t believe in anything, but because she’s trying to believe in everything. Astrology, religion, numerology — all these fragments that promise meaning only leave her feeling more hollow. The very things that are supposed to fill people seem to pass right through her. Watching how much they ground her sister, Nadia, only makes her feel more alone — like there’s something broken in her for not feeling it too.

She spends her days at a marketing job where she code-switches her way through meetings, making herself smaller just to fit in. During a Monday morning chat at work, Miranda brings up her family tree — her mom’s side stretches back eight generations, and when she trips over her ancestor’s name, Cunégonde, a coworker looks it up and says sheepishly, 

“That means… female genitalia.” Miranda just blinks at her and says, “My grandma’s name was cunt?” The comment sends Miranda spiraling. Is it another story of a woman erased, or a curse she’s supposed to carry? Out of instinct — or maybe desperation — she calls Nadia, her spiritual powerhouse of a big sister who seems to have found peace in all the things Miranda can’t. They decide to take a road trip to Louisiana to meet a distant cousin who keeps their family records. But the trip becomes something else entirely — a slow unraveling. The car becomes a mirror, reflecting back all the faith Miranda’s lost in the world, in her sister, and in herself. Somewhere between gas stations, laughter, and silence, she finally breaks — crying into a burger at a roadside diner, saying out loud for the first time that she feels like a mess. And for once, Nadia doesn’t try to fix her. They leave lighter, maybe not healed, but a little more whole.