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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?

  • Drama
  • Comedy

Top billed cast

  • Photo of Amira KhalifaAmira KhalifaIda
  • Photo of Marja PackalénMarja PackalénKati
  • Photo of Leena UotilaLeena UotilaPipsa
  • Photo of Matti RistinenMatti RistinenVille
  • Photo of Jarkko NiemiJarkko NiemiJore
  • Photo of Tomi SalmelaTomi SalmelaHaastattelija
  • Photo of Alf HemmingAlf HemmingHaastattelija
  • Photo of Margit SuonperäMargit SuonperäSihteeri
  • Photo of Elina VehkaojaElina VehkaojaSatu
  • Photo of Sari ViitasaloSari ViitasaloKirjallisuuspiiriläinen

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