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Vanilla Essence

Vanilla Essence

1989 · 16 min

A young woman in her home begins to bake a cake, but finds that she doesn’t have any vanilla essence. Never having stepped outside her house before, she decides to go out to find some vanilla essence, and she finds the external world strange but also surprisingly rewarding.

Directed by Anna Kannava

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