Mirush leaves Kosovo hoping to find his father in Norway, who abandoned the family when Mirush was very young. Now the father runs a restaurant in Oslo, but he is also in deep debt to the Albanian Mafia. Mirush starts to work in his father's restaurant without letting him know that he is his son.
Acting
Nazif Muarremi's silent longing could shatter glass
Direction
Holst builds unbearable tension through what remains unsaid
Cinematography
Oslo's grey isolation mirrors the characters' emotional prison
Director
Marius Holst
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fisnik Zegeri (Armend) was a complete unknown discovered working at a Kosovo gas station; this was his only film role.
The film captures a real phenomenon: thousands of Kosovo Albanians fled to Norway in the 1990s, creating diaspora communities that remain socially isolated.
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