Mairy, a thirty-year-old woman from Philippines, works in a village in Cyprus. She takes care of Mr. Michalis, an eigthy-five-year-old man with arteriosclerosis. Mr. Michalis spends his days in front of the television, watching time and again a soap opera with a heroine named Anna. He soon becomes obsessed with this heroine, to the point of calling Mairy 'Anna', despite the remarks of his daughter Melpo. When Mairy finds some old photographs she makes an important discovery...
Acting
Spyros Stavrinidis's fragile, obsessive turn as Mr. Michalis.
Direction
Haralabous lets silence do the violent emotional work.
Director
Spyros Haralabous
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cyprus hosts one of the highest ratios of migrant domestic workers to citizens in Europe; the film's 2013 release coincided with mounting activism around their labor conditions.
The soap opera 'Anna' is never shown on screen—we only see Mr. Michalis's rapt, deteriorating face, making the fictional woman more 'real' to him than Mairy's physical presence.
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