It was written (based on a novel by Yōko Ogawa) and directed by Diane Bertrand.
[1] Iris (Olga Kurylenko) is a young woman working in a bottle washing factory.
She loses the tip of her ring finger in an accident at work and leaves her job.
She moves to a nearby port city and comes across a job working for a strange laboratory at which people have "specimens" preserved.
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