Through the Winter

Teodor Currentzis, one of the most gifted conductors in the world, spent 7 years working in the city of Perm, Russia. It made him a local hero, while the annual Diaghilev Festival under his guidance became one of the country's biggest contemporary arts events. This story focuses on the last two weeks of Currentzis' tenure in Perm in an attempt to understand how modern Russia and its art come along.

Nadya is 31 years old. When she was younger, she ran away from her native Kazakh village to a large Russian city, where she began a new life with a new name, a new story, and, ultimately, a new destiny. Years later, she decides to return to her homeland, where her father still lives, in order to face her biggest childhood fear and become whole at last.