A Capraesque tale about a soon-to-be-orphaned adolescent seeking an audience with Michelle Obama, Ma?mouna Doucouré’s sophomore feature dismantles boundaries of status and decorum and celebrates the power of self-determination.
Based in part on Kågerman’s experience working for Vice Magazine and the novel Die Gelehrtenrepublik by Arno Schmidt, the pic takes place in an alternative reality where the cold war did not end, and an atomic bomb has struck Soviet Kazakstan. A young Swedish club kid — working at one of the hippest magazines in the world — is handed the reporting assignment from the restricted zone.
