The Unknown Woman is a film about a runaway prostitute that believes she has found the location of one of her children that she was forced to up. The film begins with Irena being assaulted by her pimp to establish a setup of her former life. The scene changes to Irena being in a new town and having a new look to herself ot seemingly escape and fool anyone that may be looking for her. Irena has now changed her profession from prostitute to a maid. She begs t the owner of the apartment building where her daughter lives to let her clean the building and he agrees buy for a percentage of her wages.
Irena soon learns that the family who has her daughter already has a nanny. She befriends the wqoman and eventually tries to kill her by tripping her down the stairs of the apartment building. The nanny is left in a comatose like state and is moved into an assisted live facility. Because of this Irena is now able to move her way in as the nanny for the family. She makes herself out to be the perfect candidate for the family by searching through their trash to learn what foods they like to eat and also by rushing to learn to drive and getting her license and she is soon hired by the family.
At first, the daughter doesn’t like Irena because she misses her old nanny, as a result she treats Irena poorly, but Irena soon wins her over by buying her a castle playset and putting it together for her. Now Irena’s past begins to catch up to her and she is attacked one night after work by a gang of santa’s that her former pimp presumably sent after her. Because of this she is forced to miss work for a week.
Irena learns that the daughter is very sensitive and that she is hurt very easily and that students at the school pick on her often. Irena begins to teach the daughter to fight back and get up when she is pushed down. She ties the little girl up and pushes her down over and over again onto pillows and tells her to get up using just her legs, after she learns this, she starts pushing her down on a hard wood floor until the girl got angry enough to start smacking Irena. At this point, Irena knows the little girl has finally learned to fight back against the people that have wronged her.
One day while in the park with the little girl, Irena believes she sees her former pimp Mold by the trees. This comes as a shock to Irena because she thinks she murdered him. Now Irena also believes the little girl has been kidnapped because she couldn’t find her during their game of hide and seek even after calling out to her. The mother of the girl now becomes suspicious of Irena’s past and decides she no longer wants her as a nanny. Mold then has the mother killed by cutting her break lines to frame Irena.
The police question Irena and she says she believes the little girl is her daughter. The police question Mold’s masseuse and she says Mold told her to make up a location and name and that it was just a coincidence. The woman didn’t want to, so Mold read the name of a company and city off the back of his necklace.
The police give the girl and Irena a DNA test and prove to Irena that she isn’t the mother of the girl. She then leads the police to the body of Mold and goes to jail for some years. At the end of the fiml, Irena is released from prison, and the little girl is an adult now and has come to greet Irena at her release.
I think the theme of the film is that it’s never too late to start over. I really enjoyed this film. I thought it was a good mystery thriller and I thought the end was touching.
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