The year is 2007. The place is Estonia. As the snow falls,
a car drives up to the Saarne Institute and someone watches from the window as Anna - an
Art Therapy instructor - enters the building. Anna is checked and is greeted by Dr Novotny
before beginning her first day's work. They are interrupted by a man who informs them
that a patient named Leena is missing. The Institute is put on red alert.
Dr Novotny explains that she is their most dangerous patient and Anna is left somewhere
safe while they search for her. Inside the room, Anna discovers a
little girl sitting at a desk. She can see that the girl has drawn a picture
of her and introduces herself as Leena. Dr Novotny enters the room with some orderlies
who restrain her and take her back to her room. He explains to Anna that she is not
a child. She suffers from a gland disorder which holds her growth at around aged
10. She is, in fact, 31 years old. He goes on to explain that Leena uses her affliction to fool
others into getting her own way. One night Leena seduces a guard
and kills him. She uses his keycard to escape through the corridors. Anna is also just leaving
and sees Leena outside in the snow. She goes back to warn Dr Novotny and quits the job.
Anna drives back home without realizing that Leena has stowed away in the back of her car.
Leena kills her and then enters the house. She checks Anna’s computer for lost children
and finds a girl online that looks similar to her named Esther.
Leena goes outside and sits on some swings. She is picked up by the police
and tells them that her parents are from the United states - and her name is Esther.
In Connecticut, US, Allen and Tricia are watching their son, Gunnar, win a fencing match.
They discuss the loss of their daughter but suddenly they are informed by Inspector Donnan
that she has been found after four years. Tricia travels to Moscow and is reunited
with “Esther”. On the flight back Tricia speaks of the family but seems surprised
to learn that Esther has forgotten about the death of her Grandmother.
As they arrive back in the airport, Leena is embraced by Allen before they return home.
They enter the house and Leena explores.
She tells Allen and Tricia that she enjoys painting and Allen is delighted.
The following day, they go to meet Dr Seager - a child psychologist.
She asks Leena what happened while she was away but Leena skillfully changes the subject.
While Dr Seager speaks with Tricia, Leena eavesdrops on the conversation.
Dr Seager has noted some inconsistencies so Leena creates a distraction
and they leave. On their way out, Leena notices Inspector Donnan taking photographs of them.
Back home, Allen takes her around his studio. His paintings make use of ultraviolet paint
to make a hidden layer. He tells Leena that nothing is ever just one thing.
She uncovers a load of newspaper clippings concerning her disappearance
but he re-covers it and says that there is no use dwelling on the past.
He suggests that they may like to paint together and she tells him
that she wants to draw him. Tricia notices her panting and seems surprised at how good it is.
Later, Tricia picks up a notebook that Leena brought back with her but Leena snatches it from
her telling her it’s private. Tricia tells her that she was just looking for her gold watch.
Leena then uncovers a notebook with writing by Esther and uses it to enhance her deception.
At dinner, the family discuss Esther’s artistic prowess and Leena calls Tricia “mommy”.
There is a knock at the door. It is Inspector Donnan who has come to check
on things. He appears to have some concerns. That night it is revealed that Leena has been
stealing jewelry and money. She is about to leave but looks back and sees Allen in his studio.
Her growing fondness for him encourages her to return.
Tricia and Allen are preparing to attend a charity gala. They feel that since they got Esther back,
they also got their love life back. They start to have fun without realizing that Leena is watching.
Leena slashes Tricia’s expensive dress. Gunnar is left in charge and Leena asks
what they are going to do. He holds a party in the backyard while Leena is told to stay in her
room. Disobeying the instruction, she joins his friends downstairs and refuses to leave.
Inspector Donnan comes to the door and asks Gunnar if he’s having a party.
He denies it even though the Inspector can smell illegal substance smoke from the street.
Inspector Donnan asks to use the bathroom but instead goes upstairs and takes a
fingerprint sample from Esther’s room. As he leaves, Leena is watching and checks the
room before realizing what he was up to. Tricia and Allen arrive home. Leena has
left the shower running to make it appear that she is in the bathroom. Tricia picks
up the book from earlier and finds a picture of her and Allen, with her face scratched out,
newspaper clippings regarding the missing child and a reference to the Saarne Institute.
Tricia walks into the bathroom to discover that Leena is missing.
Inspector Donnan is at home, checking the fingerprints and realizes that Leena’s
prints are not a match for Esther’s, which he has on file. Leena sneaks up behind him
and stabs him in the back. As he lays there dying,
Leena demands to know how he knows that she isn't Esther when her own mother doesn’t know. He claims
that she does before he is shot. Tricia is holding the smoking gun
and makes sure that he is dead. She then points the gun at Leena's head
and Leena explains how she has got there. Tricia asks why Leena didn’t rob them
and leave sooner - she thinks that Leena is playing for bigger stakes.
Leena asks to be let go and they will never have to see her again but Tricia tells her that Esther
cannot disappear for a second time. Tricia tells her that Gunnar and Esther
had a sibling argument and Gunnar went too far. There was an accident
and Esther was killed. Tricia was protecting her son but Allen didn't know anything about it.
Together they hide Donnan’s body down a well and they agree to continue the
deception. They send an email from his computer to cover his disappearance.
They return home together and as Allen puts Leena to bed, Tricia and Gunnar discuss the
problem they are now faced with. The family goes to see Dr Seager
again and create a deception that she is fitting back into her family life well.
Later, some family friends come for dinner and Leena is prepped well for how to behave.
Gunnar comes to confront Leena. They argue and he threatens her and calls her a freak.
One night, as the family sits down for dinner, Tricia serves Leena an alternative meal.
Leena is suspicious and asks to be excused
but Tricia tells her that she may take her dinner and eat it in her room.
Once upstairs, Leena puts the food down for a mouse that is in her room.
Allen comes in to check on her and asks her to join him to do some painting.
They paint in the studio as Tricia watches them together. As Allen goes to bed Tricia comes in
to confront Leena and tells her that Allen would be as repulsed by her as any man when
they realize that she is a mutant. Tricia taunts her before going upstairs to join her husband.
Leena returns to her room to find that the mouse has died.
The next morning, Leena has cooked breakfast for Allen and Tricia.
Tricia empties the smoothie that has been prepared for her down the waste
disposal but discovers that the dead mouse was inside the glass.
Allen is on his way to an art gallery and the family goes to the railway station to see him off.
Leena sees Tricia and Gunnar speaking together and as the train approaches she attempts to
push them off the platform. She is interrupted by another commuter and her plan is foiled.
Allen gets on the train and leaves but Tricia realized what was going to happen.
She tells Leena that their arrangement is over and that she is dead.
Leena grabs Tricia’s handbag and takes the car but Tricia reports the car as stolen and Leena
is soon picked up by a police officer. Back at home Tricia learns that Leena has
been found and she is brought back to the house. Leena walks in, followed by Tricia. Tricia tells
Gunnar to get up as they are going to do this. They confront Leena who tries to make a run for it
but she is restrained by Gunnar. Before Tricia is able to complete her terrible plan, Leena is able
to escape but Gunnar pushes her down the stairs. Suddenly Tricia receives a phone call from Allen
who had received a call from the police and is on his way home. Gunnar notices that Leena has gone
so he fetches his fencing blade and tracks her through the house.
He finds her in the dark and she suddenly produces a crossbow and disables him. Then
she gets the fencing blade and finishes him off. Tricia arrives and chases Leena into the kitchen
where they fight savagely, ultimately causing a fire.
They both climb onto the roof as Allen arrives home. Both slip and are left clinging to the
roof trying to explain their case to Allen. Tricia slips and falls to her death as Allen
rescues Leena. He tries to comfort her but her disguise is revealed.
Allen is horrified and calls her a monster. In her anger, Leena pushes him off the roof.
As the fire department heads towards the house, Leena is inside cleaning herself up
and puts herself back into disguise as Esther. She walks out of the flames
and through the front door. Some time later, Esther is moved to an orphanage
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