Direction : Sengedorj Janchivdorj
Script : Sejendorj Janchivdorj
Photographer : Otgondavaa Jigjidsuren
Editing : Munkhbat Shirnen
Music : Dulguun Bayasgalan
Actors : Bayartsetseg Bayangerel, Enkhtuul Oidovjamts
Production : Nomadia Pictures Mongolia
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Year : 2022
Screening : 2023
DCP, Color, 124 mn, OV mongol ENGSUB
French electronic subtitles
Osaka Film Festival and New York Asian Film Festival 2022
French premiere
When Namuuna slips on a banana skin and breaks her leg, she is forced to find a temporary replacement for her afternoon job that requires a great deal of discretion. And who better than shy and loner fellow student Saruul can guarantee secrecy? It doesn’t take long to convince Saruul that the money is good and the job is easy, despite being a bit out of the ordinary. In fact, the task consists in tending a Sex Shop and, at the end of the day, going personally to hand over the day’s earnings to Katya, the shop owner, an eccentric middle-aged woman living with a cat in a sophisticated apartment. Gradually, the routine meetings at the end of the shift bring the two women closer. They cannot be more different in age, experience and social league; one is from a modest family, the other leads a glamorous albeit solitary life. Saruul is fascinated by Katya, her mysterious past, her exotic Russian name and provenance; she is outspoken, daring, funny and sexually liberated, while Saruul is unexperienced, confused and doesn’t even have the guts to tell her ambitious parents that she’d rather be a painter than the nuclear engineer they would like her to become. A sweet friendship blossoms.