Dearest Sister

Dearest Sister is about a Lao village girl who’s only chance of escaping indentured poverty is to manipulate her wealthy cousin’s illness into dependence. Poor village girl Nok travels to capital Vientiane to care for her rich cousin Anna who has mysteriously lost her sight and somehow gained the ability to communicate with the dead. Matters are further driven downfall by the cousin’s ambivalent marriage with an Estonian expat Jakob, who has his own dark secrets to hide. (Estonian Film Institute)