A filmmaker sets out to the Middle East alone on a trip he’d originally planned with his girlfriend, shortly before they broke up. What was meant to be a journey spent scouting for locations for a film about the rise and fall of early civilisations, instead becomes an introspective odyssey where he reflects on Zsófia, the cause of their breakup, and the nature of projection in both love and epistemology.

Shot across Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Oman, and making use of appropriated footage from the Internet as well as music videos, TV shows, and commercials from the late ‘90s and early 2000s, ‘Tender Age’ explores the passage of time, and the degree to which our present is haunted by it.

It is less an investigation of a subject than an investigation of a memory, how things used to feel, and the progressive corruption of that memory over time.