In 1999, during US-led NATO bombing in former Yugoslavia, Ljilja and her two sons left Belgrade to ironically seek refuge in the United States.  Over the course of the next four years, filmmaker Darko Lungulov follows this single mother, whose bitterness toward US foreign policy is still palpable, and her two sons as they make a new home in America.  Lungulov focuses largely on Ljilja's sons, Vlada and Dusan, as they navigate the complicated waters of "becoming American."  Then, in an unimaginable fate, on September 11, 2001 Ljilja finds herself working on the 80th floor of one of the Twin Towers while her sons wait anxiously from the sidelines to learn of her near escape.  Less than two years later, Vlada, now a young man, tries to make sense of the world around him as the war in Iraq unfolds and memories of bombings back in Belgrade are triggered.  We follow him through his complex quest for personal and national identity.  Escape delves deep into global issues, and yet remains an intensely personal story.

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Darko Lungulov
Here and There Productions
PO Box 2992
Sag Harbor, NY  11963
(212) 203-2617
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