A magic trick goes wrong at a 4-year-old’s birthday party when the magician turns the family’s tyrannical patriarch into a chicken. Feathers fly as the child’s mother, whose life has hitherto been dedicated to caring for children, moves heaven and earth to get her husband back while stepping up to take care of things he has left undone, like paying their overdue rent. Her biggest conundrum, however, is how to treat that pesky chicken. The film is at once a dark comedy, a social-realist drama about the invisible sacrifices made by mothers and a fun fantasy, set in an unknown time and place, and a winner of the Grand Prize at Cannes International Critics Week.