The story is based on the bestseller Soviet Milk by the renowned Latvian writer and more than 20 book author Nora Ikstena. And perhaps it was an inappropriate question since I ended up being her mother.” “Over twenty years that I spent with my mother, I couldn’t bring myself to ask her why she pulled me, a helpless babe, away from her breast. “I didn’t want to live, and I didn’t want her to drink milk from a mother who doesn’t want to live.” The lifelines of mother and daughter flow in occupied Soviet Latvia from 1945 to 1989 when the Soviet Union collapsed. However, the grown-up daughter becomes her only supporter who tries to help ease her mother’s depression and learn to live in the depressive Soviet regime herself. A promising young doctor loses everything due to her conflict with the totalitarian Soviet regime – her career, love for life and even her mother’s instinct to deny breast milk to her baby.
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