As one of Lithuania's most ambitious works in recent years, 'Explorer' is an inspiring true story drawn from a dark period in the country's history. In the 1950s, under the shackles of Stalinism, hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians were expelled to the Gulag concentration camps in the Soviet Union. Marija is an 11 year old orphan girl who escaped from a transport train and embarked on a 6000 mile journey home on foot. Under suspicion and cruelty, she disguised herself as a Russian and kept her true identity a secret.
