Valentina Romanova-Chyskyyray

Three children - Niukku, Michil, and Aiaal - set out for a fortune-telling event. They must unravel a mysterious prophecy to discover what the future holds for them.

A young woman lives with her husband in a small apartment, a convenient refuge from external problems—the pandemic and social upheavals. When her husband goes away on a business trip, she, having not set foot in the house for a month, begins to experience strange things. Objects disappear from under her hands, a window opens by itself, or soil appears in the apartment. She is plagued by bad dreams and visions of her late mother.

A year in the life of Valentina Romanova, whose fate, as she herself says, is like a mystical thriller and an ancient tragedy.

She is a healer. A hermit. A Fool-in-God. She is a little over forty years old. She doesn’t disdain alcohol. She can be ridiculous, humiliated, offended. She has long been indifferent about herself. Everybody avoids her and is afraid of her, but secretly at night they all hurry to her home. After all, only she can get rid of their illnesses. For her, this is a damnation, and each time she swears that she won’t help people any more, but each time she is unable to refuse them. She knows that her gift will ruin her some time, but she continues to be the only chance of salvation for people.

A documentary road movie. Traveling across his homeland, the filmmaker explores what Yakut cinema is, and what it means to the Sakha people and to himself.