The High Frontier

A lonely woman is walking a path in the woods. Soon she arrives at a house where she is warmly welcomed. The woman observes that her arrival caused a storm in family's life.

“Where is the human soul? Is it in the heart? In the brain? Or maybe elsewhere?”, wonders an old doctor who has spent his life working at a psychiatric hospital in the Siberian countryside. The place, which was inaccessible for film crews, can be shown thanks to its residents, some of whom spent several decades at the hospital. This discreet and, at the same time, insightful observation of the patients’ daily lives transforms into meditation on the human nature, which is not entirely penetrable.

A family on the border of Siberia and Kazachstan struggles to deal with a trauma that happened in their past.