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.
| Release Date | September 7, 2012 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Released | |
| Original Title | Puhdistus | |
| Runtime | 2h 5min | |
| Budget | $3,100,000 | |
| Revenue | — | |
| Language | Finnish | |
| Original Language | Finnish | |
| Production Countries | Estonia, Finland | |
| Production Companies | Solar FilmsTaska Film | |