Overseas and Under Your Skin

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?

4

86 min

Cast

Amira Khalifa

as Ida

Marja Packalén

as Kati

Leena Uotila

as Pipsa

Matti Ristinen

as Ville

Jarkko Niemi

as Jore

Tomi Salmela

as Haastattelija

Alf Hemming

as Haastattelija

Margit Suonperä

as Sihteeri

Elina Vehkaoja

as Satu

Sari Viitasalo

as Kirjallisuuspiiriläinen

Leena Rapola

as Kirjallisuuspiiriläinen

Liisa Isotalo

as Kirjallisuuspiiriläinen

Kati Kinnunen

as Kirjallisuuspiiriläinen

Anna-Leena Sipilä

as Lääkäri

Pekka Tuhkanen

as Rane

Matti Onnismaa

as Pekka

Kari Olamaa

as Viulisti

Heini Lehto

as Pianisti

Leila Talarmo

as Sairaanhoitaja

Annika Ernst

as Anita

Ismail Sahin

as Deniz

Leander Lichti

as Hans

Christiane Zeiske

as Putiikinpitäjä

Melanie Krabs

as Mel

Tyron Ricketts

as Sol

Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey

as Lääkintävahtimestari

Beate Pfeiffer

as Sairaanhoitaja

Director

Lenka Hellstedt