Paradise Is Burning

Paradise Is Burning

2023108 min5.7 / 10

A coming-of-age drama about three sisters navigating the precarious freedom and vulnerability of parental neglect, caught between the thrill of autonomy and the terror of institutional separation.

Left to their own devices by their absent mother, Laura and her two sisters revel in the excitement of freedom, letting their days unfold without the constraints of adult supervision. However, when Laura receives a call that threatens to place them in foster care, she frantically searches for a substitute mother to avoid this fate.

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