Maija Doveika

An intense psychological thriller about an architect who, amidst growing tensions with his wife and in an effort to restore his masculinity, accidentally murders a man who’d assaulted them. A pervading paranoia and mysterious blackmailer prove that his fight for his manhood is far from over.

Based on the true story of Melanija Vanaga, this film is a brutally realistic and terrifying account of the mass deportation of residents of Soviet-occupied Latvia that took place in June 1941. At the outset, Melanie and her husband are arrested and forcibly separated at gunpoint and loaded into cattle cars. Melanie spends 16 years in a Siberian prison camp before learning of her husband's fate.