Overseas and Under Your Skin (2009)

overview : 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?

Release Date : Jan 23, 2009

Runtime : 1h 26m

Genre : Drama  Comedy  

Companies : Silva Mysterium, Flying Moon Filmproduktion GmbH

Countries : Finland, Germany

Keywords : depression, berlin, germany, based on novel or book, parent child relationship, culture clash, black people, emigration, multiculturalism, racism, racial prejudice, adopted child