在这部墓地女孩剧情片中,影片以一个孩子的视角呈现了一个处在危机之中的爱沙尼亚家庭的生活: 8 岁的露西亚无忧无虑地生活在爱沙尼亚的一座小城。他的父亲卡多是个守墓人,勉强养家糊口,而她的母亲是个酒鬼,酗酒成性。一天,露西亚的父母收到一份邀请信,请他们去芬兰一周。露西亚的学校来了一名新老师,十分关心她的生活。新老师的到来和芬兰的旅程将以难以预料的方式改变每个人的生活。
卡特林· 劳尔执导的《守墓人的女儿》获得了爱沙尼亚电影奖, 影片所表现出的真实和流畅受到了众多影评人的认可。
A snapshot of one segment of Estonian present-day life, shown through the eyes of a child: LUCIA (8) is leading a jolly and naughty Pippi-Longstocking-style life in a small town in Estonia. Her father KAIDO (35), a graveyard keeper, can hardly provide for the family, her mother MARIA (37) is a drunk. Then the family receives an unexpected invitation to spend a week in Finland, in the house of the female pastor SIRPA (45). This week will change everybody's life in unexpected ways...