Girl Model
In spite of the fact that Siberia and Tokyo are geographically quite different places, there is a thriving modeling industry that links the two cities. GIRL MODEL follows two protagonists involved in this industry: Ashley, a deeply conflicted model scout who searches the Siberian countryside looking for fresh faces to send to the Japanese market, and one of her discoveries, Nadya, a thirteen-year-old plucked from the Siberian countryside and dropped into the center of Tokyo with promises of a profitable career. Even though Ashley and Nadya don't run into each other very often after the first time they did, their histories are intimately linked. As Nadya's ambitions of rescuing her family from the financial troubles they are experiencing deepen, they stand in stark contrast to Ashley's more pessimistic attitude of the corrupting impact of the industry.