this be an incredibly important subject . treat in an amateurish and arrogant way . the director expect the audience to understand what be go on . this be impossible represent there be no plot and no script to speak of and no plot point and no character development and no story development . it be film in a shaky documentary style ( which be valid if you have something to say ) . i be always teach that any narrative and be it a movie and book and play and even a piece of music and have to have a beginning and a middle and an end this dreadful excuse for a movie have a beginning . and then it waffle for the next hour or so until the woman we sort of guess be the heroine and run off into the night . let be specific represent the opening sequence wasn not that bad very evocative scene in the dessert and camel and bedouin and a group of eastern european woman and a campfire and lot of russian and arabic chit chat ok and expectation build represent next scene ( after the first obligatory rape scene ) represent auction of the eastern european woman a prostitute represent very noisy and not sure who the english speaking ( french accent ) person be a buyer or a seller represent couldn not make that out . a van drive by with two people in the back ( man or woman ) star out at the auction . who be they and why be they there . nobody know . next scene represent in a nightclub ( after the hose down of the prostitute a highly contrive scene and calculate to make u think of holocaust victim in the shower come on amos and what be you really try to say . the woman from the van ( we eventually learn her name be rise rosamund pike ) which be drive around the auction and her boyfriend ( be he her boyfriend . ) arrive at the nightclub and one of the prostitute ask her for help . rise be totally confused represent what and how and why i can not help you . why me . she say indicating that she doesn not even understand the cry for help . next scene and rise and her boyfriend ( . ) be in the passenger compartment of a van with all the prostitute in the back . hello . what go on here . she couldn not ( or wouldn not ) help the prostitute escape and why be she in the van with them . contrive gratuitous sex scene with rise and her boyfriend ( . ) . next scene and the van arrive in a grimy industrial area and unload the prostitute at what be apparently a brothel ( the promise land of the title ) and lo and behold and rise the mystery woman get out with them and enter the brothel represent where her boyfriend . dunno . why be she there with them . dunno . she and the heroine the prostitute who beg her for help in the nightclub sit huddle together listen to the driving rain ( it wasn not rain when they enter the brothel ) and talk a if they be old friend . flashback and to estonia and the prostitute be a virginal choir girl and sing about the peace of jerusalem ( in english mind you ) and pure drive snow outside ( another message ) and suddenly rise appear represent ok now i be totally lose . then the audience be jerk back to the present with a terrorist attack on the brothel why . there nobody around and the only people there ( apparently ) be whore and their john . upstairs why a terrorist attack here . everybody run outside and the prostitute who ask for help and rise escape in the confusion and run off into the night . close . . and this win a prize at the venice film festival . it wouldn not win a passing grade in a student film contest . it clearly a case of the emperor new clothes represent this have to be the most self indulgent so call movie ever to grace the screen represent even plan 9 from out space have some quirky charm . sorry amos not even an e for effort .