Andrey Soustin

An elderly lady goes to the city center to get a gift for her daughter. Near the station square, an expensive-looking fur coat is being touted to her. A devious scam or a miracle?

Alyoshin is a pupil at a correctional orphanage. To confirm his legal capacity and to get out, he goes on an internship in a bakery. There, he falls in love with a co-worker and pretends that they are having an affair.

A son who has left Abkhazia for the Russian North writes a letter to his father who remained in the mountains. His days are marked by the monotonous hum of the factory, cold sunrises, and a yearning for the warmth of home. The letter’s lines are steeped in childhood nostalgia: the smell of an old apartment, a southern forest, cows wandering through it.