Nataliia Khomenko

Svetlana stares into the salt desert with her only eye. Gulshat runs an empty hotel. Captain records traces of the vanishing sea, and Sergei drives tourists across its bare, glittering seabed. The last people of Mo´ynoq who remember the original shore of the drying Aral Sea...

Working on his screenplay about two guys admitting their feelings for each other, a film directing major from Kyiv, Lyonya, asks his classmate Andriy, with whom he's secretly in love, to help with the script editing.