At the insistancce of her parents, a young Jewish woman pretends to be her family's maid in order to survive the Nazi invasion and destruction of her family. Fleeing into the night she hides with a family friend and seeks to get vengeance.
Atypical revenge tale has a lot of different threads running through it and as such isn't run of the mill. There is a complexity of character and situation here that you don't normally see in films like this. While there is the inevitable march to revenge there are some complications and characters that aren't your typical WW2 good guys and bad guys.
Well acted and beautifully shot, there is something special here and I understand why this was chosen to open this year's Dances with Films New York.
Recommended.
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