Yuliya Khamitova

A film about love and loneliness; about family ties and responsibility, hope and its illusoriness.

Many years after a deadly terrorist siege in a Moscow theatre, survivor Natalya returns to the crime scene to hold a memorial evening, finally able to confront her survivor's guilt and her estranged daughter and husband.

The year is 1917. We are in the Russian countryside. It is the middle of freezing winter. A pale young, newly educated doctor arrives. Having to deal with one medical challenge after another he soon becomes the center of everyone's attention. To soothe the impressions of human suffering he turns to morphine.

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.

The end of the 19th century. A series of mysterious murders takes place in the provincial city of N. The metropolitan investigator Goremykin arrives at the crime scene. The search for the killers leads him to an unexpected conclusion – a revolutionary circle has been created in the city, which consists of two young men who recently returned from Switzerland.