From the director of smash hit Hilary Swank thriller The Resident and Finland s Official Academy Award submission for 2013, Purge tells the epic, breath-taking story of two women thrown together by fate and by history. Escaping a ruthless gang of criminals in present day Estonia, Zara is taken in by her great aunt Aliide, a mysterious woman whom she has only ever known from a faded photograph of her mother s. But Zara soon discovers the incredible journey and immense ordeal suffered by Aliide decades ago at the hands Stalin s Soviet militia during its tumultuous regime in World War II.