AU PAIR

In the film Au Pair we meet three young Filipino women with three different reasons to leave home – and with three different dreams for the future. Roselie has left her country to support her younger sisters’ education. With permission to work in Denmark for only 18 months, she has to find a new host family in Norway or she will have to go back home. Matet supports her parents and a cousin adopted by her parents. But then Matet’s mother is diagnosed with cancer and has to send even more money each month. Theresa has left her two-year-old daughter with her mother back in an extremely poor village. She earns money for her daughter’s survival and future possibilities, but the fact is the whole family is depending on her. The stories of these three women become the story of a complex world, in which it is difficult to tell who is exploiting whom; a world in which money corrupts emotions.