I WON’T COME BACK
The story is set in the present and follows the classic road-movie genre, with the heroine traveling across two countries: Russia and Kazakhstan.
Anya is a 23-year-old university teacher. Petite and anemic, she looks fourteen to sixteen years old. She is a determined, self-made woman who spent her childhood at an orphanage. Anya has failed to learn some important human values, such as looking after loved ones, being responsible for one’s own life and having the capacity to love, something she was deprived of during her childhood. Just as her career is about to take off she is wrongly accused of drug possession. All her previous relationships tumble down like a house of cards. Her carefully arranged plans for conquering the world misfire and taking advantage of her youthful appearance she escapes to the only place she knows well, the orphanage.
In the orphanage Anya meets Kristina, a withdrawn-looking 13-year‐old girl who dreams of running away to be with her grandmother in Kazakhstan. Anya has nowhere to go and when the threat of discovery forces her to leave this orphanage as well, she decides to go with Kristina.
Director: Ilmar Raag
Script: Yaroslava Pulinovitch & Oleg Gaze
Producer: Aleksi Bardy
Shooting schedule: September-October 2012, Spring 2013
Premiere: Autumn 2013
Distribution in Finland: Scanbox Finland
Budget: 1 300 000 €
Total support from the Finnish Film Foundation: 100 000 €
Production company: CTB Film Company (Russia)
Co-production company: Helsinki-filmi Oy (Finland)
