Only One Bed

It endures because it compresses the whole question of closeness onto a few centimetres of mattress. Who takes which side, who turns over, whose hand is where by morning. Nothing has to happen, and yet everything has shifted.

Look for a convincing reason, usually a plan gone wrong. Look for the attempt to dodge it, the floor, the sofa, the armchair, which fails. And look for the morning after, when both of them act as if nothing occurred.

In "Three Days Until Family," a hotel room at the Napa Valley wine estate is booked for one person only, and in three days Livia will become your stepsister. In "Snow That Holds Us," the mountain rescue hut is cramped, the storm rages outside, and inside there's nothing left but to endure each other.