Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Two different but strangely complementary young women living together are pictured in a fragmented and non-linear narrative about incommunicability and alienation.
MLR is based on the concept of a momentary lapse of reason which is a sudden moment of clarity and understanding of something which ends just as quickly as it begins.