Mauve is the color palette Monet used to represent his wife Camille Doncieux on her deathbed. It's also the color palette of suffering and complex trauma; of visible and invisible bruises, from the female gaze.
A mysterious protagonist is on a quest worth spending 150 years playing chess to unlock, and Sarajevo, now called Neosarayevo, is under the control of a sinister Cyberdyne-esque corporation - Sodyn.
Alberto, a collective taxi driver, observes through the lives that pass through his car, the beauty hidden in the decadence of the oil city where he works.
Gage and Hannah are a young couple making a new home off the coast of Florida. Their marriage has been rocky, but all of that changes when the new girl, Julie, moves in next door.