The Woman in the Window
By Alma de GroenDirector Liz Bradley
In Stalin’s Russia, the great poet Anna Ahkmatova is forbidden to write. In a future, denatured world, a young woman, Rachel, searches for what is missing in her life. In her world, a ‘poet’ means one who researches poetry in the archives, Rachel becomes a dispossessed Akhmatova. When the literary archives, which are seldom accessed any more, are about to be switched off and the ‘poets’ de-listed, Rachel risks her life to save the poetry archives for future generations.