Swedish-Danish: Lilya 4-ever

The film starts with a figure running urgently towards a expressway bridge, with a plant belching smoke within the background, to a audio recording of Mein Herz brennt by Rammstein. once the figure turns round the film introduces the audience to Lilja, United Nations agency has recently been viciously overwhelmed. The film reveals her past.
Lilja lives a reasonably bleak life together with her mother in a very run down living accommodations block in a very squalid, poor city in associate nameless former republic of the state (principal picture taking came about in Paldiski, Estonia). For all intents associated functions she could be a traditional teenaged lady (albeit an impoverished one). Lilja's mother tells her they're emigrating to the us together with her new adult male, however at the instant Lilja is left behind, within the care of her kinswoman. A forced go into a squalid flat (while the kinswoman moves herself into the larger, nicer flat that Lilja and her mother had lived in) is simply the start, and a succession of miseries square measure concentrated upon Lilja. Lilja's succor encourages her to hitch her in prostituting herself for further money, although Lilja decides to not follow through. However, once the friend's father finds the money the friend claims that she was the one United Nations agency Sabbatum at the bar whereas Lilja prostituted herself. Not content with devastation Lilja's name reception, the story shortly goes spherical faculty. As Lilja has been abandoned, she currently extremely will need to prostitute herself for cash to measure. One glimmer of hope is her friend Volodya, abused and rejected by his alcoholic father, with whom she forms a young protecting relationship. She buys Volodya a basketball with cash she has earned  as a prostitute, however Volodya's father punctures it with a combine of scissors. Another glimmer of hope is Andrei, United Nations agency becomes her adult male and offers her employment in Scandinavian nation. however all isn't what it appears, and solely dangerous things wait Lilja once she arrives there.

After inward in Scandinavian nation, she is greeted by her future "employer" (in reality, a pimp) and brought to an almost empty living accommodations wherever he imprisons her and rapes her. Lilja is then forced to perform sexual acts for an outsized variety of clients; nearly all the abuse is seen from Lilja's purpose of read.
Meanwhile within the former state, Volodya commits suicide, desolated that Lilja had abandoned him to his fate. within the variety of associate angel, Volodya involves Lilja to observe over her. On legal holiday, he transports Lilja to the roof of the living accommodations, and offers Lilja the planet as a gift, however she merely finds it cold and unwelcoming. when one escape try Lilja is viciously overwhelmed by her pimp, however she then escapes once more. Finally, and far to the distress of Volodya (who regrets having killed himself) she commits suicide herself within the continuation of the scene from the start of the film by jumping from the bridge.
The film's conclusion shows 2 alternate versions of events: a. Lilja and Volodya, currently each dead, angelic and jubilantly enjoying basketball on the roof of some tenement house building, safe from all damage the planet will do to them. it's additionally shown that somehow Lilja was sent back in time to once she created the choice to travel to Scandinavian nation with Andrei (possibly as a results of the deceased Volodya's intervention). In essence she finds herself specifically at the instant she 1st created the choice, but now she rejects Andrei's provide to travel to Scandinavian nation and he or she and Volodya square measure shown to presumptively live happier lives.