Deep in an Estonian forest, two women - one young, one old - are hiding.

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Zara is on the run from brutal captors, men who know about inflicting pain as punishment for those who step out of line. Aliide offers refuge but not safety: she has her own secrets, traitorous crimes of passion and revenge committed long ago, during the country's brutal Soviet years.

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Both women have suffered lives of abuse. But this time their survival depends on revealing the one thing history has taught them to keep safely hidden: the truth.

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A haunting, intimate and gripping story of suspicion, betrayal and retribution against a backdrop of Soviet oppression and European war.