Beyond the Steppes

"Beyond the Steppes” tells the story of a woman’s forced journey to the steppes of Central Asia.Nina, a young Polish woman, is deported with her baby by the Soviet Army in 1940, to the deep hostile lands of the USSR. She has to work in a sovkhoz under the control of the Russian political police. When her child becomes ill, she leaves on a search to find medications with a group of Kazakh nomads. The film draws the intimate and personal experience of this woman, as she’s forced into exile, struggling against the extreme conditions of this inhuman land." Quoting the synopsis from the 2010 Locarno International Film Festival site.