A visually arresting apocalyptic fable with a modern queer twist, Ordinary Failures begins quite literally with a bang. In the shadow of a mysterious explosion that has brought Prague to a halt, three women look for a path forward after their lives are each altered in ways that will bring them inexorably together.

Within the film’s intergenerational triptych, the youngest heroine is Tereza, whose parents try to obscure her queerness by thrusting an ultra-feminine birthday party upon her. There is also recent widow Hana, who finds herself edged out of her job and quiet-quitting her grief support group. But most fraught is Silva, a mother facing the consequences after her difficult son has gotten into a physical altercation with another child. Over the course of a fateful day, the film brings each of their stories to a tipping point as it also intersects them in surprising ways, with a cataclysmic environmental event looming on the horizon. An intimate character study with a dash of science fiction, this film treasures the unexpected small miracles of everyday life.