Alaska in the 1860s, back when the territory still belonged to Russian-America. Simon, a mining engineer from the Finnish portion of the Tsarist Empire, buys the Łingít girl TSAMO and takes her back with him to his homeland. There, he attempts to introduce her to his culture – but, alas, she grasps the world through the eyes of her own. A work of great formal rigour and exquisite visual beauty about the failure of cultural coexistence.
Alaska in the 1860s, back when the territory still belonged to Russian-America. Simon, a mining engineer from the Finnish portion of the Tsarist Empire, buys the Łingít girl TSAMO and takes her back with him to his homeland. There, he attempts to introduce her to his culture – but, alas, she grasps the world through the eyes of her own. A work of great formal rigour and exquisite visual beauty about the failure of cultural coexistence.
