A woman and a young girl in different cities are struggling to find their way in this world. Will their paths intersect and will that change their destinies?
Cinematography
Bleak Russian cityscapes that breathe loneliness.
Acting
Dina Korzun's fragile, wordless devastation.
Direction
Chevazhevsky's patient parallel storytelling.
Director
Yaroslav Chevazhevsky
Anastasiya Dobrynina
Kuka
Dina Korzun
Lena
Dmitriy Dyuzhev
Roma
Aleksandr Polovtsev
Nikolai Alekseevich
Pavel Derevyanko
Serega
Yuri Kolokolnikov
Zheka
Irina Kupchenko
Lena's mother
Yuri Belyayev
Lena's father
Marina Golub
Klava
Andrey Ilin
Anna Ardova
Igor Savochkin
Kseniya Chernoskutova
Tatyana Pletnyova
Alevtina Dobrynina
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chevazhevsky shot the dual-city sequences without the two leads ever meeting on set.
Released during Russia's post-Soviet cinema renaissance, it rejects the era's dominant gritty crime thrillers for quiet humanism.
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