Alexandra Kanchurina

Olya is a musician who lives with her younger sister in a communal apartment. One day, she realizes that she has begun to forget the facial features of her mother, who passed away long ago. The film centers on an attempt to piece together and hold onto the fading image of a loved one.

Teenagers from the provincial town of Nechayevsk organize a club in which they repeat scenes from foreign films in real life. Their leader is determined to bring the matter to perfection, but everything changes when his right hand decides to leave the club.

For the first time in her life Virineya is an ethnic Moksha woman who grew up in Moscow, meets Vasily, a man of her own nationality. She is an aspiring model who appears in cheap advertisements, he works at a garbage processing facility. On her days-off she likes to have a glass of cold beer, he enjoys playing tennis. They are very different, but they have a common land of their ancestors, where they have never been, as well as the endangered language of their people, which they speak but poorly…

Alina, a theater student, has difficulty studying, loses feelings for her boyfriend and takes antipsychotics. In order to finally understand herself, she goes through the entire hierarchy of help: a psychotherapist, a fortune teller, and even disappearance from the face of the earth. But when Alina sinks to the very bottom, she suddenly finds a way out of the situation.

The protagonist arrives in a provincial town to meet his father for the first time in years. Gradually, he realizes that his father lives in a world between sleep and reality, taking on other people's nightmares, and now the protagonist must inherit his burden.