The Five Senses

An apartment building in Toronto and several people who live in it. A massage therapist loses her client's small daughter in the park, and that moment touches everyone's life. The therapist's own daughter meets a man who watches people. A cleaner with an acute sense of smell, a cake maker who has lost her sense of taste, and an old man whose hearing is going are in the same building. Jeremy Podeswa's Canadian film distributes the five senses across five separate stories and ties them all to the missing child. Mary-Louise Parker is in the cast. The telling does not use the senses as metaphor; for each character it is genuinely a physical matter. The tone is calm, the connections are not forced, and the film does not feel obliged to resolve anything.