Top Cast
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Pálína Jónsdóttir
Vera
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Margrét Þorgeirsdóttir
Vera
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Vigdís Gunnarsdóttir
Anna
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Helga E. Jónsdóttir
Grandmother
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Baldur T. Hreinsson
Director
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Jónas Ingimundarson
Grandfather
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Vigfús Þormar Gunnarsson
Brother
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Ingi Hrafn Hilmarsson
Daniel
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Ólöf Margrét Ólafsdóttir
Older Woman
Overview
Vera is a young woman who has no memories of her mother. Her desperate search for a mother image merges with her own search of self as she inevitably makes an attempt to define the boundary between herself and a mother she never knew.
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