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Tskaltubo, once a famous Soviet spa town, has been transformed into the largest refugee camp in Georgia after the war in Abkhazia. Three decades later, the government is trying to restore its former glory, moving most of the displaced families to new apartment blocks on the outskirts of the city. The film follows the last residents of a sanatorium. Gia stays for her cats, Nunu for the plants and the fragile remnants of nature she cares for. In small daily rituals, they have created not only a home, but also a family - united by memories, resilience and the hope of one day returning to Abkhazia. For them, leaving would mean severing their last connection to the idea of home.
Movie about an abandoned sanatorium in a small spa town. Constructivist building, a celebration of development, a substantiation of the architect´s humanistic vision. The author embodied here his ideas of progress and constructed a symbol of a modern society. Nowadays: it is a modernist ruin of utopia. Cruise ships that sank in spa park. The owners have no interest to take care of the building, which is not profitable. Therefore this unique monument is decaying. But what is truly dysfunctional? The building, the architecture or the society? Are we prepared to deal with modern ruins ?
The biggest attraction in the Georgian city of Gori is still the Stalin Museum. Buses of tourists from all over the world arrive daily, for whom it is a mandatory stop. They happily take pictures with one of the biggest criminals in modern history.