Summaries

A single mother of a thirteen-year-old boy from Belarus seeks refuge in Belgium with dreams of a better life, but instead, she will be incarcerated and separated from her son, risking deportation.

Tania, a young Russian woman who lives illegally in Belgium with her 13-year-old son Ivan. Constantly on her guard, she dreads police checks until the day she is arrested. Mother and son are separated and Tania is placed in a detention center. She will do anything to be reunited with her son but won't manage to avoid threats of deportation.—Hannelore Goossens

Without a country, struggling to integrate in Belgium for the past eight years, Tania, an illegal immigrant from Belarus denied of a political asylum and her thirteen-year-old son Ivan, live in constant fear, dreading the cold and blind inevitability of an unexpected police check. And then sadly, Tania's dreams of a better life will shatter to pieces when two immigration officers will arrest and send her to a detention facility, separating cruelly the mother from the son. Under those circumstances, incarcerated and in-between worlds, desperate Tania will attempt to protect her son, but how is that possible when she too is facing deportation?—Nick Riganas

Details

Keywords
  • police
  • boy
  • mother
  • deportation
  • detention center
Genres
  • Drama
Release date Oct 5, 2010
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) Not Rated
Countries of origin France Luxembourg Belgium
Official sites Haut et Court
Language English Russian French
Filming locations Hermalle-sous-Huy, Engis, Wallonia, Belgium
Production companies Versus Production Iris Productions Dharamsala

Box office

Gross US & Canada $651
Opening weekend US & Canada $404
Gross worldwide $290108

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 30m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

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