A story about the illegal trafficking of women, through the eyes of a prostitute from the East who steals a flute to give it to her sister.
Acting
Zhukovska's eyes do entire monologues in silence.
Direction
De Ocampo refuses to look away, but never exploits.
Cinematography
Cramped spaces that feel like traps closing in.
Director
Isabel de Ocampo
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of Spanish shorts addressing Eastern European trafficking in the 2000s, when Spain became a major entry point for forced prostitution.
The flute itself—a wooden child's instrument in a concrete world—functions as Doina's last claim to personhood, not just gift.
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