Your mom ghosted you for 30 years, then epilepsy says 'surprise!'
Sasha lives his simple but cool life: he works as a bartender, meets a beautiful girl Laura, together they are preparing to move to Barcelona, where they are already waiting for their own apartment and their own bar, which Laura's parents bought for the couple. On the surface, everything looks perfect, but no one knows what difficulties are hidden in the depths. A few days before the move, Sasha learns that there was a woman who left him in the hospital thirty years ago. A young man who has grown up as an orphan gets a chance to see his mother for the first time. Acquaintance with this woman completely changes Sasha's life. On the threshold of her apartment, where he comes filled with desperate resentment, a lonely and sick woman appears, falling in front of a guy in an epileptic fit. Sasha sees a man who, probably, all these years was not easier than he was.
Acting
Avdeev's rage-to-empathy arc hits like a gut punch
Writing
No villains, just broken people breaking each other
Director
Yana Klimova-Yusupova
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Post-Soviet orphan narratives often romanticize biological reunion; this film brutally subverts that expectation.
Khamatova's casting carries meta-weight—she's famously exiled from Russia, mirroring maternal absence.
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