Maxym Surkov

According to the philosophical and religious tradition of ancient China, a Daoist is a person who seeks to live in harmony with the natural order of the world, following the principles of balance and simplicity. Perhaps this very idea served as the foundation for Surkov’s surreal and plotless film. On the other hand, it’s a melancholic sketch of Troieshchyna in the late 1990s.

A film observing the mode of life and everyday existence of the Polissia countrymen, whose survival depends on the cranberry crop in the marsh. Cranberries here are considered on a par with bread.