Abused by her parents and dejected by her bleak existence in an impoverished village of the Zsil River Valley, a twelve year-old girl finds just how much worse things can get after determining that she would be better off on her own. Iska (Maria Varga) is a young girl who earns money for her family by scavenging for metal, coal, and other various valuables in the rubble surrounding her village. When Iska returns home empty-handed one day after unwisely bargaining with a buyer, her parents punish her with a sound thrashing. Though she hesitates at the thought of leaving her sick sister Rozsika (Rozsika Varga) behind, Iska furtively slips out of the family home to seek out a better life elsewhere. A short stay in the well-intended but woefully inadequate orphanage system does little to ease the frightened child's fears for the future, and though things begin to look up when Iska plans a seaside escape with friendly boy Marian (Marion Rusache) things soon take a turn for the worse when Iska is kidnapped by deviants who run a child prostitution ring.
cinando.com wrote:Iska is a twelve year-old girl living on the streets in a coal mining town in Eastern Europe. The story follows her fight for survival from her small town to the Black Sea where she becomes a victim of 'human trafficking'. Maria Varga plays a role almost identical to her own life and her childish naivety and vitality lend a tragic charm to this story. Street children play themselves in this story which is full of their vitality and eagerness to escape their fate. When Iska is taken to an orphanage and asked if her parents hurt her, she is happy to response, ‘Well, they do not beat me every day.'
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