Overseas and Under Your Skin (2009)
Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?
- Lenka Hellstedt
- Tuula Nikkola
- Lenka Hellstedt
- Riikka Ala-Harja
Rating: 4.4/10 by 8 users
Alternative Title:
Land under hav - SE
Land unter Wasser - DE
Country:
Finland
Germany
Language:
suomi
Runtime: 01 hour 26 minutes
Budget: $0
Revenue: $0
Plot Keyword: depression, berlin, germany, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, culture clash, black people, emigration, multiculturalism, racism, racial prejudice, adopted child
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