Lorna, a young Albanian woman living in Belgium, has her sights set on opening a snack bar with her boyfriend, Sokol. In order to do so, she becomes an accomplice in a diabolical plan devised by mobster Fabio. Fabio has set up a false marriage between Lorna and Claudy allowing Lorna to get her Belgian citizenship. However, she is then asked to marry a Russian mafioso who's ready to pay hard cash to also get his hands on those vital Belgian identity papers. Fabio intends to kill Claudy in order to speed up the second marriage. But will Lorna remain silent?
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The first image in “Lorna’s Silence’’ is a wad of bills being counted. We don’t see money all that often thereafter, but its presence at the beginning of this sad and solemn drama is striking. This, the movie makes clear, is what it’s all about: the petty greed that has loosened a moral universe from its moorings. (Full review)