Alex, an experienced surgeon, makes a mistake in the diagnosis of his seven-year-old godson. The boy dies on the operating table. Stunned, the man tenders his resignation. One autumn morning he is sitting on the riverbank in a favourite place where he used to fish with his godson. Suddenly he notices the figure of a shapely semi-naked girl emerging from the fog. She is shivering with cold. Alex spontaneously offers his help, and thus becomes part of an incredible adventure story.
Cinematography
Kyiv's river fog becomes a character—ethereal, suffocating, beautiful.
Acting
Seitablaiev's hands shake with history; you believe every scalpel he never picks up.
Director
Roman Balayan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Balayan, a Soviet-era auteur now working in independent Ukraine, uses the Dnipro River as national wound and healing site—Kyiv's liquid memory.
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