Earlier drafts of the script included more information about Esther's past and explain why she attempts to seduce her adoptive fathers. She was molested by her father for years, starting when she was an infant, destroying any future chance of her having her own children. Her father later took another lover, telling Esther that, because of her condition, she could never be a real woman. She murdered them both and was ultimately sent to Saarne, the mental institution. After escaping from Saarne, she worked as a prostitute in Estonia for a while. When she was arrested for this, she kept up the pretense of being a child to stay out of jail and was sent to an orphanage. Esther sees herself as trapped inside the body of a child, and it disgusts her. She wants to "grow up" and be a wife, a mother, and a lover (what her father considered a "real woman"), and tries to find "love" where she thought she once had it as a child, with her new father.

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