Agnes and Will didn’t have easy childhoods. In Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet. … If not for the hawk, the forest, what her mom taught her, and her biological brother, Bartholomew, Agnes might have shut down to living in the real world and to Will’s love, completely. Bartholomew reminds her of their mother’s wisdom: “To live with our hearts open.” Yet, more loss and misunderstandings can close up your heart again.

Loss can feel like a nowhere land of moving aimlessly from feeling to feeling, from place to place, inside your mind. Loss can make you feel like a lonely nomad. You’ve lost the home you know, with a person that you love.