Une petite histoire
d’un petit
monde (2006)
Country: Ukraine
Genre: Romance
Production: Mettel Studios
Writer/Producer/Director: Vinsent Mettel
Cast: Lina Hoidenko, Vinsent Mettel
Logline: An angel who has watched a lonely young woman from the rooftop for years chooses to become human to be near her, just as she — unable to find him in life — chooses to leave it. They change places, forever standing on opposite sides of the same roof.
For a long time, an angel silently watches a young woman from the roof of her home. He sees her loneliness, her longing, her quiet hope for someone she cannot name. She feels his presence—like a breath, a shadow, a reason to keep looking upward — but never sees him.
Tired of only observing, the angel gives up immortality to become human and finally reach her. At the same moment, the woman, unable to find in life the one her heart has always sensed, decides to say goodbye to it.
Their choices cross in a single instant. The angel becomes human. The woman becomes an angel. They meet again — on the same roof — now closer than ever, yet on opposite sides, bound by love and separated by existence.