In “Lilja 4-ever” (Lukas Moodysson, 2002), a young girl (Oksana Akinshina) living in a deprived area of the former Soviet Union is abandoned by her mother (Lyubov Agapova) who is moving to the USA with her boyfriend. Lilja is forced to live by herself in a very poor apartment. Together with her friend Natasha (Elina Benenson) she starts prostituting herself in a nightclub for extra cash and later is deceived by her new boyfriend Andrei (Pavel Ponomaryov) who makes her travel into Sweden, where she is forced to work as a prostitute and imprisoned in a nearly empty apartment. One day she finds her entrance door open and escapes but then has to realize that in her situation all roads are blocked, and a return to normal life is no longer possible
Added music is “Mysterons” by Portishead.
Duration : 0:9:57