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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.
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Nanna Bøttcher
Nanna Bøttcher
Police woman
Nanna Bøttcher
Police woman
Yusuf Kamal El-Ali
Yusuf Kamal El-Ali
Son
Yusuf Kamal El-Ali
Son
Amira Helene Larsen
Amira Helene Larsen
Translator
Amira Helene Larsen
Translator
Zeinab Rahal
Zeinab Rahal
Mother
Zeinab Rahal
Mother


Alexandre Willaume
Alexandre Willaume
Policeman
Alexandre Willaume
Policeman
Peter Fog Jensen
Peter Fog Jensen
Policeman in office
Peter Fog Jensen
Policeman in office
Maria Yang-Busch
Maria Yang-Busch
Woman in corridor
Maria Yang-Busch
Woman in corridor
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