Never Been Asked, Never Are

Masha receives an offer from her producer son to make a film about unknown places in the Moscow region and its inhabitants. Together with co-presenter Sasha, she goes along a given route and learns the stories of amazing people and places. Masha is inspired by the characters, and she decides to take the project beyond one film and, contrary to her son's plans, continues her journey to more distant regions of Russia. New acquaintances and heroes make the presenters reflect on childhood, how the place where a person grew up determines his path.

In God’s forgotten village, it’s been raining for years. Superstitious inhabitants of the village live in a world of myths and tales, believing the main character Maya to be guilty of drought, which brings disaster to her only presence.

Early 90s. The carefree youth of St. Petersburg of three friends, students from Abkhazia, abruptly ends with the news about the beginning of the war in their homeland. And now the guys are on the train, leaving behind their studies, their usual life, youth and everything that worried them yesterday.