Desert

Local drama in which a newly pregnant young Asian woman living in Auckland is made to fend for herself when her Kiwi boyfriend disappears before they sign the marriage certificate.

Jenny, an Asian woman in her late twenties, lives with her New Zealand boyfriend in a small apartment in Auckland. When they find out Jenny is pregnant, her boyfriend seems willing to get a marriage certificate for her. On the day they are to perform a quick formal ceremony in a registry office, he doesn’t turn up. None of their old peers seem to know of her boyfriend’s whereabouts, but Jenny stubbornly tries to find him. Jenny’s world becomes increasingly more isolated, and she forced to look inside herself – and the new life there forming – for answers.

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