Synopsis

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 their stories merge into one, revealing the tragedy of a family during the cruelest years in Estonian history.

Dec 31, 2023 at 05:14 AM

Original title: Puhdistus

Released: Sep 7, 2012

Budget: $3.1M

Studios: Solar Films, Taska Film

Countries: Estonia, Finland