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A foreign woman in a burqa brings her young son to a Copenhagen police station to file a complaint against her abusive husband, but the translator assigned to her seems unwilling to convey the true meaning of her words. A tense, diamond-hard film about cultural isolation and bureaucratic ignorance.

Cast

Nanna Bøttcher

as Police woman

Yusuf Kamal El-Ali

as Son

Amira Helene Larsen

as Translator

Zeinab Rahal

as Mother

Alexandre Willaume

as Policeman

Peter Fog Jensen

as Policeman in office

Maria Yang-Busch

as Woman in corridor

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