Purge is a story of two women from two different eras linked by separate tales of deceit, desperation - and fear. Aliide has experienced the horrors of the Stalin era and the deportation of Estonians to Siberia, but she herself has to cope with the guilt of opportunism and even manslaughter. One night in 1992 she finds a young woman in the courtyard of her house; Zara has just escaped from the claws of the Russian mafia who held her as a sex slave. Aliide later finds out that the girl is related to her.
Set in a suburb by the same name, Vuosaari is an episodic feature of today´s Finland. Vuosaari is the last stop on the metroline, the beginning and the end of a journey. The film´s intertwined stories are about families and individuals, children and adults. They all need to be loved and touched.
