Sardana Savvina

A documentary road movie. Traveling across his homeland, the filmmaker explores what Yakut cinema is, and what it means to the Sakha people and to himself.

Taptal is the name of the main character, a middle-aged woman played by Tatyana Legantieva. She lives in a village with her parents and her brother's family. For the past 5 years, she has been dreaming of changing her life, but she doesn't know where to start... On her birthday, she makes a wish to get married. That same evening, she hears a horoscope that says she needs to act right now! And then she sees an ad for the reality show "The Bachelor" on NVK "Sakha". Love decides to go to Yakutsk and find her soulmate on the reality show. She is not stopped even by the fact that her vacation was suddenly cancelled...

Yakut Stepan Beresekov periodically falls into a lethargic sleep. Only a Russian, the son of a priest, Ivan Popov, can distinguish his condition from real death. But Popov is going on a long ethnographic expedition. Stepan decides to follow his savior so as not to be buried alive.

There is no escape from the war... 1942. While all the forces of the country are thrown into the fight against fascist Germany, in the southern part of Yakutia there are gangs robbing gold mines. The largest of them is the elusive and brutal Popov gang, which collects stolen gold to organize a military coup in the Far East. In their footsteps, a small detachment of the NKVD under the leadership of Senior Lieutenant Karasev is sent through the snow-covered endless taiga.

After a car accident, the parents died in the family. The younger brother miraculously survived and is now confined to a wheelchair. The elder feels guilty, but to no avail. He does not want to put up with the fact that the younger brother will remain disabled. He decides to help him in an unusual way. The elder brother steals the car from his grandfather, and leaves with his brother to the river.

A drama unfolds in the endless snow-covered expanses of Yakutia. The elderly man Khaby, together with two companions, must give the young Kiluk as a bride to the old prince. Taken from her parents' yurt in exchange for a rich dowry, she dreams of escaping home, but Khabyi is harsh and unforgiving. Only young Nykus tries to alleviate her difficult situation. During the journey, feelings develop between them. During the long and difficult journey, Khabiy begins to feel a growing threat. Nykus, driven by feelings for Kiluk, is ready to take extreme measures. Fate leads them to a long-abandoned hut that holds a secret from Khabiy's past.

He is forty years old. He left his wife and children in order to care for his mother, who is under seventy. She has Alzheimer's disease. She begins to forget who she is, and ceases to recognize her son. The hero has one goal in life - by all means keep her mother’s memory of herself. He takes her from village to town to start a new life with her.

Two Yakutian fathers who lost their sons become locked in a tormenting cycle of revenge against a pristine snowy landscape.