A. Zakrzhevsky

Moving from rural Russia to the city, Den faces a new reality.

Two young girls meet a flute-playing monster while gathering food.

Moscow, the 1990s: there is a girl whose mother has died and whose father is an alcoholic under constant hospital care. On her sixteenth birthday, she leaves her parents' house to start a completely independent life, hoping to find an interesting job, friends, a boyfriend... But her new life looks set to be complicated and tragic.