Grief goes on vacation, but trauma brought luggage.
After experiencing a terrible tragedy, the hero leaves his former life. Everything that seemed important goes into the past — work, success, the usual rhythms of a big city. But the world of people refuses to let him go, bursts into his chosen solitude, beckons with new opportunities. Unexpectedly for himself, the hero finds a new home, where he seems to find peace, love and answers to his painful questions. But are these the right answers? And what price will you have to pay to survive and remain yourself?
Acting
Abashin's silences speak paragraphs.
Cinematography
Coastal light as emotional weather.
Direction
Brashinsky lets discomfort breathe.
Director
Mikhail Brashinsky
Vladislav Abashin
Oleg
Viktoriya Tolstoganova
Vera
Egor Popov
Anton
Irina Brazgovka
Zoya
Sergey Umanov
Petr
Aleksandr Sheps
Guide
Kseniya Orlova
Ksysha
Roman Radov
Gleb
Aleksandra Mareeva
Oleg's Wife
Mariya Antonova
Girl on the train
Ilya Lutsak
Boy on the train
Maksim Dromashko
Adult Policeman
Roman Kolotukhin
Young Policeman
Aleksey Bagdasarov
Investor
Polina Stepanova
girl in the class
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brashinsky, better known as a film historian and critic, directed this at 72 — his fiction debut explores the Russian intelligentsia's escape to provincial silence.
The seaside town was deliberately chosen for its Soviet-era sanatorium architecture — decaying utopian leisure spaces mirror Oleg's broken domestic dream.
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