Purge (Puhdistus)

PURGE

What do people do when they have no wings?

People run and escape as long as they have the strength.

When they no longer have strength, they try to hide.

But not everyone can run fast enough.

Or find a good enough hiding place.

That's why you have to be alert...

and stay completely still.

You're quicker than me.

You wanted to be part of my skin like a mole or a liver spot...

or dirt, but you're nothing but filth!

They put goddamn bait out there.

If you're goddamn bait, you came to the wrong house.

No. Stop.

- Do I have to call a doctor? - No. No doctor.

I'm alright.

You don't seem alright.

- Don't go anywhere or I'll call the police. - No police.

- I haven't done anything. - Why were you lying there?

- Where did you come from? - From Tallinn.

He hit me and I ran away.

- Who hit you? - My man. Pasa.

Is he looking for you?

You sure you don't want me to call the police?

I'll leave soon.

Where? Looking like that?

Are you hungry?

Come.

We'll find you something.

Speaking of work, what kind of a uniform is that?

I waitressed at a hotel, but I quit.

That must've been one hell of a fine hotel.

What the fuck is that smell?

You and you. Get out. Quick.

Quick. Get in the car.

- These are the girls? - Yeah.

Damn 0ksanka.

They sat a week on the train and 24 hours in the car.

- Get in. - Go.

- No way. - Get in the car.

If you behave...

I'll let you sit in the back before we get to Germany.

This is it.

Put your stuff in the corner.

Follow me.

This is the hotel? We'll clean and waitress here?

No way.

Fuck!

You owe me.

- Once you've paid, you can go. - I don't have money.

You'll work and pay off your debt.

The more you work, the sooner you'll pay it off.

- What work? - You'll do the kind of work that pays.

I own you. I'll add your clothes...

room and board and training to your debt.

You'll pay for everything.

This didn't start off well.

I'll have to add 300 marks to your debt...

for acting stupid.

You fucking idiot!

You'll learn to whore. They all do.

To Aliide from your sister, 1941. Koluvere village.

Have you lived here long?

Always.

You live alone?

Yes.

Why do you ask so many questions?

Maybe you're bait after all.

- What? - No use pretending.

You're here to rob me. You and your man Pasa.

You're a mafioso's wife.

Or a businessman's, as they call them nowadays.

He's a smart man.

Sent bait that's in bad shape.

Who wouldn't help a poor girl like you?

I better send you away right now.

I'm not a thief. Pasa mustn't find me.

Let me stay until morning.

I asked because I saw your engagement ring.

Martin died ages ago.

How did he die?

He died of bitterness.

Why was he bitter?

You're so young you wouldn't understand.

I think my mom is going to die of the same thing.

Martin was a good communist.

And so am I.

- Isn't Estonia free and independent? - Crap!

They'll come back. They always do.

Who?

I'm a good communist.

Is that why they wrote "Russkie" on your window?

Why is your mother bitter?

I don't know.

She never talks about anything.

She is practically mute.

My grandma said my mom got scared of a bomb as a kid.

What's your mom's name?

Linda.

What was your grandma's name?

Ingel. She's still alive.

I'll go get firewood from the shed.

Don't you dare touch anything.

Goddammit!

- Stop. - I want to cut my hair short and get an electrical perm.

- It costs two kroons. - Liide, that's silly.

Besides, it wouldn't look good on you.

- Yeah, because I'm not that pretty. - I didn't mean that.

Soon you'll have to drive suitors away.

Guess what?

I'm sure something good is going to happen this summer.

- How come? - I found a lilac with five petals.

I ate it.

Don't laugh.

I ate it the right way. The prediction can't go wrong.

Liide, hurry.

I wish he'd look at me.

Can you do me a favor?

What?

Watch him when he's with me.

Watch his face and...

look at the way he looks at me to see if he's in love.

He is. You can see it from afar.

True.

But see if he looks at others or if he just sees me.

I'm sure he sees something else as well.

But there's no doubt he's crazy about you.

I'll go help Mother with the laundry.

Ingel was lucky she saw him first.

She wasn't the first who saw him.

What did you say?

It'll be nice to have a young man around the house.

May I have this dance?

Friends, my dear wife, daughter and son-in-law.

How a mother feels in her heart when her daughter gets married...

is something only she knows.

Women know it and so will you.

They're taking Mother and Father.

Where's our mother and father?

They were sent where enemies of the people belong.

Where?

Where?

From now on the crops from your field belong to the state.

Ingel. Ingel.

Say something.

What are we going to do?

- What if they take us? They've taken so many. - No.

We'll always stick together.

What about Mother and Father?

They'll come back.

Why don't we go to Finland while we still can.

- Or Sweden would be even better. - I won't leave my home.

The West will come and help us.

Besides, Hans will move in.

I didn't dare tell you before.

I'm pregnant.

Goddammit.

Goddammit!

Liide.

I know you've been very worried about Ingel, but...

it's over now.

Come on in.

It's a girl.

We'll call her Linda.

After Mother.

- What's with her? - She was really nervous for you.

I found her in the shed, praying that everything will go well.

- What photo is that? - It fell from under the wallpaper.

- You're in it. It says "To Aliide from your sister." - Bullshit.

I don't have a sister.

If you're Aliide, who's the other girl?

- They called her an enemy of the people. - You mean your sister?

I don't have a sister.

The girl in the photo was a thief and a traitor.

What did she do?

She stole crops from the kolkhoz, was arrested and taken away.

She stole from the people.

Like the exploiters do.

Crops? Why didn't she steal something more valuable?

Sounds like she was hungry. Not evil.

You don't know what you're talking about.

Isn't it time to calm down?

Around here guests either calm down or leave.

I don't believe you. Where did she steal from?

From the field.

You can see it from the window.

Why are you interested in what the thief did?

Your sister stole from her own field!

The field belonged to the kolkhoz.

- Before it was hers. - Before this house belonged to fascists.

You said you've always lived here. That makes you a fascist.

Don't get me confused with your ravings!

I was a good communist and so was Martin!

Why did you stay when your sister was taken away?

- Didn't that make you unreliable? - I've always done what I had to.

We both should get some sleep.

You can sleep in the little bedroom. I'll sleep here.

I'll lock your door so that you don't get any ideas.

I don't care. I'm used to sleeping behind locked doors.

- Can you leave the light on? - Why?