Purge brings to life Estonia under Stalin, just after the fall of the 3rd Reich, when the land must be purified – no matter what the cost – of all the undesirables; and contrasts it with the same land, the same farm, just after the fall of Communism, when another purification is taking place.

In both times, the battleground is a woman’s body, and the choices that she has to make – choices so difficult she doesn’t even want to remember them.

Old Aliide Truu lives in a decrepit farmhouse in Estonia. Estonia has just become independent, and she is beginning to face the consequences of her decisions 40 years ago.