After the 2021 military coup in Myanmar, 34-year-old Ohnmar plans to leave the country with her fiancé. However, her plans are complicated by the difficult decision to place her sick mother in a nursing home. Struggling to talk openly with her mother, every conversation leaves Ohnmar overwhelmed with guilt and unresolved emotions. When her mother discovers her intentions, Ohnmar must make a choice between her personal escape and family responsibility.
Director’s Comment: I left my hometown at 17. Since then, I’ve lived away from my family for over a decade. When my dad passed away, I wasn’t there to say goodbye. Now, every time my phone rings from home, I brace myself, terrified it might bring bad news about my mother. Still, I tell myself, “At least we’re in the same country.”
But then the coup happened. Life turned upside down, and my friends began leaving Myanmar, chasing safer, better futures. I wanted to follow, but how could I abandon my mother in the chaos? She’s all I have left. With this story, I wanted to bring Ohnmar’s struggle to life—a woman caught between personal freedom and family loyalty. I made this film for all the Ohnmars out there, to share our collective pain, guilt, and love as Burmese people in exile. I am Ohnmar. We all are.
Sai Nyan Linn Sett is a scriptwriter and director from Myanmar, now based in Västerås, Sweden. Through storytelling and film, he portrays personal and ordinary lives shaped by Myanmar's social and political struggles. Sai developed his skills through well-known training programs in Myanmar, including the Wathann Film Festival's Screenwriting Workshop (2018), Cineport Script Warp (2019), and AUNG Kinoclinic Script Class (2020). He is also an alumnus of the ASEAN-ROK FLY program (2019) by the Busan Asian Film School.