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I Was Here (2008)

Original title: Mina olin siin

Based on the novel "I Was Here. The First Arrest" by Sass Henno

Feature film | Youth | Drama Duration 94:00

Sünopsis

Seventeen-year-old Rass is involved in the group where drinking, drugs, broken families and skipping school are everyday things. Rass is convinced that he will get out of it, even if he can count only on himself - his mother is dead, he has drifted apart from his father, and his girlfriend Säde is unemployed. For love, faithfulness and trust, Rass is ready to get money from criminal sources. When Rass owes a large sum of money to his cheating business partner, the young man will accept an offer by drug dealer Olari. When after the first fifteen doses Rass is told to sell much bigger amount of drugs, he will be thrown directly into the cruel reality of underworld together with his stepbrother and friend Janar.

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