A young girl enters puberty then hurtles toward adulthood in record speed in this strange, handsomely mounted English-language fable from Dutch director Paula van der Oest (ZUS & ZO). In a secluded wood close to an airport, an adolescent boy (Hunter Bussemaker) is forced to defecate as one of the men accompanying him digs what appears to be a grave. When approaching voices are heard, another man shoots the boy in the abdomen and leg, then leaves him for dead. Soon after, in a nearby house, a young girl named Claire (Laurien van den Broeck), whose adoptive parents (Jemma Redgrave, Johan Leysen) haven't yet told her about menstruation, is shocked to discover blood betw...
Released:
2002
Rated:
NR
Length:
91 mins