Storyline

While waiting for her mothers reply to take her to the USA, Lilya idles the time away smoking, drinking and having fun with her, too, outcast friend Volodya. In time, the chance of a new life becomes non-existent; her life is going nowhere. Meeting a young man, she then finds a plane ticket in her hand and a new life in Sweden: a job, an apartment and prospects. All is not what it seems. There shall be work, there shall be housing and there shall be no escape. This is the stark, frank and disturbing vision of the life of a young victim of the underground sex trade and in all its tone of realism of abject poverty, despicable actions and of wanting to show that dreaming of a better life is not a crime but that life can shatter the illusion of a happy ending.

Plot Keywords

human trafficking, sexual abuse, kidnapping, forced prostitution, exploitation, abandoned by mother, poverty, female protagonist, sex slave, sexual attraction, sexual desire, angel, underage sex, suicide, based on true story, anal sex, breasts, sexual pleasure, prostitute, rough sex

Short Review

After making such a brilliant splash with his first two films -- Show Me Love and Together -- the Swedish director Lukas Moodysson seems to dry up in Lilya 4-ever.

Trailer

Streaming Service

1. Amazon Video : DVD: Hardcover, by Raymond L Czaplewski | Sep 7, 2018