Lina, a fashion professional who has just collected an award in Geneva, shrugs off the trophy as if it were a nuisance and begins to wander through the city's solitary streets until, suddenly, she throws herself into the icy waters of the Rhône. That's how magnetic and powerful the opening sequence of Las corrientes is, the third film by Milagros Mumenthaler (Abrir puertas y ventanas, La idea de un lago), which the Argentine director conceived precisely from this first image of a woman throwing herself into the river. “It came to mind right there, in Geneva, where I grew up and have family – she explains–. The image provoked many questions in me, and I tried to follow them in an intuitive way”.