Piccadilly Circus by Night
London on Film
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Drama, Short Films, UR
European emigre Tanya moves to London to work as a family au pair. Still grieving for her recently deceased father and rejected by an old girlfriend, Tanya draws closer to her employer's husband. The sights and sounds of the Capital at Christmas form a deceptively romantic backdrop for this brief meditation on loneliness and love.
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