Question: Build a movie plot around this: With whom did Lilija planned to go to Sweden? Andrei
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The film begins with a figure running towards a motorway bridge. When the figure turns around the film introduces the audience to Lilja, who has recently been brutally beaten. The film then reveals her past.Lilja lives with her mother in a run down apartment block in an unnamed former republic of the Soviet Union (principal filming took place in Paldiski, Estonia). Lilja's mother tells her they are emigrating to the United States with the mother's new boyfriend, but instead she abandons Lilya in the care of her aunt. The selfish Aunt moves herself into the larger, nicer flat that Lilja and her mother had lived in, while forcing Lilya to move into a smaller, squalid apartment. A subsequent succession of humiliations and miseries are heaped upon Lilja. Her best friend encourages her to join her in prostituting herself for cash, but Lilja does not join her. When money is discovered in the friend's possession, she lies and implicates Lilya, whose reputation is subsequently ruined in the community and at school. She finally decides to become a prostitute to support herself. She forms a close, protective relationship with her friend Volodya, himself the victim of abuse. She buys Volodya a basketball, but Volodya's father punctures it with a pair of scissors. She meets Andrei who becomes her boyfriend and offers her a job in Sweden.After arriving in Sweden, she is met by a pimp who takes her to a nearly empty apartment where he imprisons her and rapes her. Lilja is then forced to perform sexual acts for a large number of clients: nearly all the abuse is seen from Lilja's point of view.Volodya commits suicide. In the form of an angel, Volodya comes to Lilja to watch over her. On Christmas Day, he transports Lilja to the roof of the apartment building and gives her the world as a present, but she rejects it. After an escape attempt Lilja is brutally beaten by her pimp, but she escapes again, successfully. Finally, she jumps from the bridge and commits suicide herself in the continuation of the scene from the...