Madama Butterfly

The 1920s. A fifteen-year-old girl from Japan dreams of a world filled with "love and freedom"—a world where a woman is happy, loved, and loving, dressed in silk dresses, with modern hairstyles and pearls, with rights, freedom, and the choice to be rich, independent, modern. This world is called America, and the girl's dream is the "American Dream."

Cho-Cho San sees New York on film—beautiful women in white silk dresses and pearls, courted by handsome men, Chinatown with smiling children, skyscrapers, cars, the Statue of Liberty...

From that moment, the young Japanese girl has one single dream—the American Dream! She wants to be Mrs. Pinkerton and live with her beloved in the land of dreams come true, America.

She renounces her religion, leaves her family...

She marries... He leaves... A child is born...

And she begins to wait… waiting for her beloved, dreaming of a place where the three of them will be happy, where everything seems possible and beautiful… America.

Three years later, he returns, but with his new American wife.

They want the child; it will be happy there in "the other country," the land of dreams...

She takes her own life, NOT because her beloved left her, but because, along with him, she loses the Dream. The Big Dream.

Nina Naydenova – Director