Aliide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a young woman in her yard – Zara has just escaped from the claws of the Russian mafia that held her as a sex slave. Survivors both, Aliide and Zara engage in unearthing each other’s motives and gradually, and their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.

"Love, Deception, Sacrifice"

Credits

Antti J. JokinenDirector

Laura BirnAliide Truu (young)

Liisi TandefeltAliide Truu (old)

Amanda PilkeZara

Peter FranzénHans Pekk