A dying girl falls for the doctor who lied about everything — including her diagnosis.
Masha is a young girl from the suburbs from an extremely poor family. She lives in her reality, where she cares for her grandmother and her younger brother, and dreams of her own family and a husband; she badly longs for warmth, love and care. She knows nothing about her serious illness. Her life abruptly changes after a meeting with Matvei Sergeevich, a cardiologist who saves her life.
Acting
Anna Chipovskaya's trembling hope against hope — devastating.
Cinematography
Bleak suburban Moscow vs sterile hospital privilege, shot like a fever dream.
Writing
The script dares you to root for something deeply uncomfortable.
Director
Kseniya Zueva
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film exposes Russia's two-tier healthcare system, where private cardiologists treat the elite while provincial patients wait to die.
Director Kseniya Zueva based the story on real medical ethics cases; the 1.8 TMDB rating partly reflects Russian audiences rejecting its critique of systemic inequality.
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