Genre: Thriller/Mystery
Director: Jennifer Kent
Writers: Rosie JoLove & Rene Menzie
Based on the novel by Lene Kaaberbol & Agnete Friis
Cast: Vanessa Kirby, Noomi Rapace, Malin Akerman, David Tennant, Paul Bettany, Krystyna Janda, Charlie Cox, Bria Vinaite, Gustaf Skarsgard, August Maturo, Imelda Staunton, Paul Anderson
Plot: An unidentified woman later revealed to be Nina Borg (Vanessa Kirby) , drags a suitcase behind an underground parking lot dumpster. She opens the briefcase and discovers a boy near death inside.
Jan Marquart (David Tennant), who’s incredibly wealthy, lives with his wife, Anne (Malin Akerman), and Aleksander, his son, on the edge of a cliff. Jan receives a call from someone who asks him if he has decided, and he responds that he has. He then tells Anne he’ll be headed to Zurich on business. Meanwhile, Lucas (Paul Bettany) and Barbara (Krystyna Janda) dream of having a family. They drive to Lake Didziulis, a scout camp location, where they’ve sex and go swimming.
On Saturday, Sigitia (Noomi Rapace) brings her young son Mikas (August Maturo) to the park. She deeply loves her son. There, a woman with a slight accent gives Mikas some chocolate, which concerns Sigita. Sigita feels terrible when the woman explains she has no children of her own. Meanwhile, Jan is annoyed to be delayed getting home. He calls Karin (Bria Vinaite) to head to a Copenhagen bank for the money he has just transferred from Zurich.
At the Danish Red Cross Center Fureso, the Coalhouse Camp, Nina deals with an angry man who comes for his much younger wife. Their relationship is clearly abusive. Magnus, a doctor, is stunned that the wife has left with her husband. Nina then receives a call from Karin, asking for a meeting.
At the meeting with Nina, Karin tells Nina she must pick up a suitcase at Central Station. Karin explains she is going to quit her job and go away for a while. Nina is told she must hurry and that this is her chance to save someone. Sigita panics about Mikas. Then, she calls her neighbor, Mrs. Mazekiene (Imelda Staunton), who doesn’t have Mikas. Sigita’s husband, Darius (Paul Anderson), doesn’t pick up the phone. At Central Station, in the system controlling section 37, locker 43, Nina pulls out a suitcase. In the parking lot, she discovers the boy inside. He is almost dead. She wonders what Karin is involved in. Later, she sees a man angrily kicking the empty locker 43. She knows she must keep the boy away from this man.
When Sigita wakes up in the hospital after having had her stomach pumped for alcohol, she remembers being in the park. She is released on Monday morning with no idea of what happened to her or her son. Since she doesn’t drink much, she doesn’t know how she could have passed out, fractured her arm, and received a concussion. She heads home to Pasilaicial, where Mrs. Mazekiene reveals a man and woman had come to pick up Mikas. The woman matches the description of the woman who was in the park.
Nina takes the boy to Allan, a doctor. After examining the child, he explains that the child has been drugged and needs to go to Hvidovre Hospital. He tells Nina he is through with things and not to come back.
Meanwhile, Sigita speaks with Sergeant Evaldas Guzas (Gustaf Skarsgard) of the Department of Missing Persons. He doesn’t believe Sigita’s story because she was in the hospital. He instructs her to go home and wait for her husband to call. Sigita wonders if everything that is happening is a punishment from God; so, she goes to Saint Kazimiero’s Church to pray and weep. Darius then calls and says he doesn’t have Mikas.
Nina calls Morten (Charlie Cox), her husband, to let him know she’ll be late getting home. Morten has picked up their son, Anton, from the after school program because Nina had forgotten. Nina then calls Peter, a member of the underground network which helps immigrants in the country. Peter is on holiday, according to his voice mail. Meanwhile, Lucas is furious that the locker was empty. Lucas tells Barbara everything will be alright. Lucas is informed that the woman instructed to pick up the goods and money has a GPS. She can be tracked. Lucas will receive an additional $10,000 to pick up both the goods and the capital. Lucas agrees. Nina then calls Karin, who consents to a meeting with Nina. Karin had hoped that Nina’s network could help the child. Sigita goes back to see Sergeant Guzas at the police station, explaining her husband is in Germany and does not have their son. Guzas begins to take notes, realizing something is wrong. Sigita cannot imagine why anyone has taken her son. On the way to meet Karin, Nina stops to buy clothing and food for the boy. A woman near Nina’s car complains about Nina leaving a child inside, but Nina drives away as the boy wakes up.
Nina drives to the fishing-tourist town of Tisvildeleje to Karin’s wooded cottage. There, she changes the boy’s clothing and carries him over to the building. Inside, she discovers that Karin has been brutally murdered. Nina throws up. Meanwhile, Sigita asks Mrs. Mazekiene about the man who came to take her son, and Mrs. Mazekiene says the man had some weight on him. He drove a gray or silver SUV with a luggage bin on the roof. She calls her coworker, Algirdas, asking him about someone else they work with: Pavel Dobrovolskij drives a silver Cayenne with a luggage rack. Algirdas thinks Pavel has sold the SUV long ago. Pavel knows gangsters; but, that doesn’t mean he is involved with Mikas’s disappearance. Nina, meanwhile, rushes back to her car with the boy, believing they are being chased. The boy screams for his mother.
Jan is angered that Karin has left a resignation note for him. His mother-in-law, Inger, comes to visit, concerned about his marriage to Anne. Inger says she hopes everything works out. After she leaves, Anne calls Jan to tell him Karin is dead. Sigita, meanwhile, goes to see the Dobrovolskij family at their home, which has recently been renovated by Janus Construction. There, Pavel is out, but his fiancée is in. She reveals that Pavel is trying to sell his SUV, but he hasn’t been able to do so yet. Meanwhile, Nina cannot believe that Karin, recently working as a private nurse, is dead. Nina wonders what her children, Anton and Ida, are doing.
Darius calls Sigita, angrily saying the police have been by to interrogate him. Sigita reflects on how her aunt Jolita pressured her to sell her child when Sigita became pregnant at fifteen. Sergeant Guzas and Detective Sergeant Martynas Valionis come to see Sigita. Valionis shows Sigita some photos of people, including Barbara Woronska, a Polish native-born in 1972. Barbara is now officially working for a Lithuanian company selling alarm and security systems. In reality, it is a honey-trap. She specializes in luring men into sexual affairs, after which they are blackmailed for various deals beneficial to Lithuanian companies. The men are drugged and have their stomachs pumped full of alcohol –apparently, what has happened to Sigita, as well. The child of a nurse, Julija Baroniene, was abducted by one of the women in the photos shown to Sigita –and Julija later got her child back. Julija was Sigita’s nurse during Sigita’s first pregnancy.
Lucas, meanwhile, goes swimming and decides to burn all of his clothes. He reflects on how the dying Karin said “Nina,” helping Lucas hone in on Nina Borg. Nina, meanwhile, finds a group of pretty young prostitutes, including Lithuanian-born Marija. Marija agrees to meet with Nina the next day. Meanwhile, Morten reflects on Nina’s all-encompassing desire to do good and her relative inability to be part of a family. The police arrive to speak to Nina on a murder inquiry, but Morten tells them she is not home.
Sigita goes to visit Julija Baroniene in person, pretending to be Mrs. Mazekiene from the school board. Julija does not recognize Sigita, who then asks directly about the abduction. Julija says it was all merely a misunderstanding. Aleksas, her husband, contends the same and orders Sigita out. He says they could not help Sigita even if they wanted to do so. Jan is called in to identify Karin Kongsted’s body and to answer questions about her. He then travels to a private flat where he obtains the Nokia cellphone he has been using to contact the Lithuanian man. Jan says the deal is off and asks if the man has killed Karin. The man says he did not and that the agreement is not out until Jan pays. Jan then flushes the phone’s SIM card down the toilet, wipes the phone clean, crushes it, and puts it in a dumpster. He then burns a photo of the boy he has been carrying.
Julija comes to see Sigita. Julija explains she got her child back in exchange for Sigita’s name. At the clinic that Julija talks about, children are sold, and birth certificates are forged to make it appear as if buyers are the real biological parents. Sigita’s aunt orchestrated such a deal. Julija explains that a Dane and a bodyguard came to the clinic seeking out Sigita. The Danish man is the one who purchased Sigita’s first child. Julija reveals the Dane to be Jan Marquart. Sigita now believes what she is being faced with is God’s punishment.
Nina knows her husband does not like that she works with illegal immigrants or that their family suffers because of her work. However, Nina believes that Denmark is a haven for broken souls. Morten reveals to the police that Nina was supposed to help Karin somehow and that Nina is sometimes absent. Nina sees the police at her apartment and does not go home. Lucas and Barbara tail Nina. Nina goes to an indoor pool, wherein in the locker room, she bathes him and dresses him. She wonders if he is potentially being sold, used in a scam, or held hostage.
Sigita realizes with horror that Jan is collecting her children. She will have to travel to Denmark rather than go to the police. If she goes to the police, it may endanger Julija’s family. Sigita confronts her Aunt Jolita. It was Aunt Jolita who gave up Sigita’s personal information in exchange for money. Sigita takes this money. Jolita tells Sigita she hopes she gets Mikas back.
Nina goes to the Church of the Sacred Heart in Stenogade, where she meets with Marija. Nina offers to pay Marija for her time. They drive to Amager Beach. There, Marija can earn the trust of the boy and learn his name, Mikas Ramoskiene. Mikas reveals that the chocolate-lady took him. Jan later recounts his working relationship with Karin as his private nurse to the police for a third time. He admits to a brief sexual affair with Karin. The police detective, Anders Kvistgard, wants to know why Jan had Karin’s car tracked. He warns Jan that charges may be brought against him.
Meanwhile, Lucas sees Dimitri Bukovski at Sunny Beach Solarium and Wellness Center, a front for all kinds of illegal activity. There, Lucas buys a Glock and a Desert Eagle. Sigita goes to the home of Jan Marquart, where her biological son answers the door. He does not look well. Sigita speaks to Jan’s wife, Anne, who reveals that Aleksander’s kidneys are failing. She says he needs a transplant. It makes Sigita realize why her son has been abducted.
Back at her apartment, Nina and Mikas are confronted by Lucas and Barbara. Lucas knocks out Nina. Lucas searches for the money, but he cannot find it. He now knows that Jan has lied to him. Lucas has been acting as a bodyguard and hired a thug from Klimka’s mafia for Jan. Wanting to get away to Poland with Barbara, Lucas had offered to kidnap Mikas for one-million U.S. dollars. Lucas knows that he will probably have to kill Nina and Jan now.
Lucas finds himself wondering what use there is in trying to get away from the criminal underworld. Sigita rails against Anne, wondering how they could abduct a three-year-old child. Meanwhile, Lucas enters the house. Sigita tells Anne that Lucas is the man who took Mikas and paid to do so by Anne’s husband, Jan. Jan, who arrives home, and Lucas demands that Jan pay him. At home, Morten discovers his apartment a wreck, along with bloodstains. Barbara is there, weeping. Barbara tells Morten that everything is over.
Nina, meanwhile, awakens in the back of a van with Mikas. Inside the house, Anne reveals she has taken the money intended for Lucas, and she plans to leave Jan and take care of Aleksander herself. Lucas then shoots Jan. While chasing Anne, Sigita appears with a toolbox, attacks Lucas with it, and shoots and kills him with his gun. Now inside, Nina knows that Jan’s wound is not necessarily fatal, and she goes to find Sigita. Anne then appears and fires a shot into the door frame. She explains that she will tell the police that she killed Lucas in self-defense. Sigita then reunites with Mikas and thanks to God.
Sigita and Mikas leave the house while Anne calls the police. Nina does her best to make the injured Jan comfortable. Nina then hides in the guest apartment where Karin had been living. She realizes that Karin had hoped Nina’s involvement would make things right. Nina realizes that, while she has saved Mikas, no one could save Karin. Nina is later brought home by the police, where Morten warmly and tightly embraces her, telling her never to do that again. September comes on, Nina enmeshes herself on average, daily family life. A call comes early the next morning. Natasha’s husband has sexually molested their daughter, and so Natasha has killed him. Nina then heads out to handle the situation.
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