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Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Nanna Bøttcher Police woman

Yusuf Kamal El-Ali Son

Amira Helene Larsen Translator

Zeinab Rahal Mother

Alexandre Willaume Policeman