Who would you be today if, a few years ago, you had not chosen the path you took? Another person, in another life. Completely, definitely, irrevocably.
"Léa / Leyla, are two women who, having worked hard all their lives, are confronted with the choices that shaped their existence and question themselves about what trace they will leave behind. Léa is a single neurosurgeon resident in Quebec. Leyla is a seamstress and mother who lives in a remote village in Lebanon. Memory disorders force them to question themselves. They are both attracted by the past, returning to those choices of life that mark us forever. What if one of these women had not left her country of origin to immigrate to Canada? What if Lea and Leyla were one and the same person? In trying to see more clearly, Léa and Layla go up the thread of events to a childhood friend who disappeared without a trace."—Windsor Int'l Film Festival
Lea (Arsinée Khanjian) is a renowned neurosurgeon in her fifties, living in Quebec. Layla (Arsinée khanjian) is a dressmaker of repute in her fifties, living in a remote village in Lebanon. One day, both start to have memory failures. Each one in her own way goes back in time to a certain foggy night in November. What happened that night? What are they to each other? And who is that woman who resurfaces from the past and whom both women seem to have known?
At one point in our lives, a choice appears as a key that opens a door while closing all the others. The Other Side of November is about all the doors that were left open.
