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<Here is a summary of the screenplay. A rain-soaked Amsterdam cold open watches Mymy Schoppenboer from the street: orange hair, Dutch-nationalist bedroom, toy rifle, off-key march. The next morning the Schoppenboer house is its usual chaos of adopted sisters. Mymy is a dyed-ginger VOC fanatic in school uniform. Coco is loud, South-African, and always organizing other people’s lives. Maya is the withdrawn narrator who treats family as something that happened to her. When Mymy vanishes, Maya decides her Japanese biological sister Eiko kidnapped her. Vera the teacher does not buy it. Maya and Coco still go to Nagasaki anyway, where the “kidnapping” is actually a return: Mymy is Meiko, who ran from Japan years earlier by following her grandfather’s Dutch trade books all the way to the Netherlands and a new family.
<In Nagasaki the movie becomes about two households claiming the same girl. Eiko wants her sister and their grandmother back. Mymy wants the version of herself she built in Amsterdam and will not be called Meiko. Maya and Coco, lost in the city, finally fight about five years of being sisters Maya never asked for. The resolution is not a choice of one country over the other. Mymy goes home to the Netherlands after a badly pronounced “arigatou” at the gate, then reappears in the kitchen with a Dutch pin and a tiny torii on the same collar, VOC pamphlets beside a Japanese notebook. Eiko emails about visas and stroopwafels. The house is full again. The last image is Maya mid-tentacle doll scene when Mymy walks in, and Maya’s voice-over repeating that they should have left her in Japan.