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Noted director Marta Meszaros finishes up her acclaimed semi-autobiographical "diary" series which started with her 1982 Diary for My Children. After her idealist father gets swept away with Soviet propaganda about a socialist Eden, young Vilma (Lili Monori) gets packed off to Kirgizstan along with her family. Instead of finding paradise, however, they discover only totalitarian oppression and political murder. One by one, her family is killed for trumped-up charges as a part of Stalin's purges. Later, Vilma is taken to a Young Soviet school, given the more revolutionary name Nina Alexeyevna, and eventually allowed to return to her native Hungary.