Hirotoshi Takeoka

The Kists are Georgian Chechens who live in the Pankisi Gorge. The local men are known for their bravery but also infamous for being ‘terrorists’. The documentary is a multi-threaded story of inhabitants of a little known place in the Caucasus.

A car makes its way through the pitch black on a snowy night, into a village deep in the mountains. Okugawa, nestled in the mountains of Fukushima, is the man's hometown. The village is slowly disappearing, its population dwindled down to just 500 elderly residents, yet the man begins building a new house.