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The timid Ines steals the identity of a Japanese Hostess to become the person she could never find within. But when her boyfriend starts unraveling the double disappearance, Ines finds out that killing her past is fraught with danger.

During a trip to Northern Norway with her boyfriend, Ines accidentally meets seductive Japanese hostess Maria--a meeting that ends on a deadly note in the harsh wasteland of the winter country, but becomes a new beginning for Ines, who soon finds herself under a new name in a remote and foreign city: Osaka, Japan.

"Who would you like to be if you could be anyone ?"

Ines follows her boyfriend's business trip to Norway and meets the enigmatic Maria, coming from Osaka. Their chance encounter becomes more profound as they get to know each other and find affinities within themselves and the divergent lifestyles they lead. One night, under the green glow of the northern lights, their relationship comes to an abrupt end.

Without looking back, Inés leaves everything behind and flies to Japan, retracing the mysterious footsteps of María's life. A business card bearing the name of a hostess club, 'Miss Osaka', leads her into the neon lit depths of a labyrinthine parallel world where identities are as fluid as the sound of a mellow sax solo, where reality is no match for dreams and the emptiness of the soul can be healed with a new personality. As she plunges with determination into this unique existence, Inés begins to realize that all dreams, even the most beautiful ones, have to end.

DIRECTORS INTENTIONS by Daniel Dencik: Osaka is somewhere I've always been drawn to. When I was a boy it sounded like a completely different world. To me this film is about every theme that has filled my mind and imagination since I was a child: luck, destiny, the gift of chance, copies and originals, changing identities, and the pure, raw adventure that is life itself. I think every single one of us has dreamt of being someone else. Freed from ourselves for a moment - or forever. Miss Osaka is our take on improvising a vanishing trick against the backdrop of reality. A crazy idea made real. We follow our main character on her journey, an exploration of total freedom. We've set out to harvest the fruits of uncertainty and used them as our fuel. The world might look sad and lonely, but it's also cool and full of jazz - and secrets. Miss Osaka is a film about a unique individual who could be anyone. First she disappears from herself, then she disappears from the outside world. But even a lost soul can find their way home.