Arquivo

Wintertime: people are freezing. That’s how it is there in the Ukraine. The East looks like the West, the West looks like the East. In this atmosphere two stories take place that at first glance appear unrelated. One is an import story: it begins in the Ukraine and leads to Austria. The other is an export story: it begins in Austria and ends in the Ukraine. First one is about Olga, a young nurse and mother. Olga wants more from life. She wants to get out of the city, out of the country. She decides to go to Austria, which she does. In this foreign country in the West, she finds work and then loses it. She starts as a housekeeper and ends up a cleaning lady in a geriatric hospital. The other story is about Paul, a young Austrian. He finally lands a job as a security guard but gets fired almost immediately. His stepfather takes him along on a job in the Ukraine setting up video gambling machines. Import Export deals with sex and death, living and dying, winners and losers, power and helplessness, and how to give the teeth of a stuffed fox a professional cleaning job.