Evgeny Alaev

Zhenya is 15. Besides being a quiet and sensible boy, he is a promising violinist. Behind the door of Zhenya’s bedroom he daily hears his tyrannical stepfather being violent with the boy’s mother, but cannot find the courage to intervene. One sunny morning Zhenya comes to a decision to radically change his family’s life.

He was the most popular guy in town: a troublemaker, a jokester, with connections in the criminal world. She was an excellent student, the beloved daughter of the police chief. A tumultuous romance followed. Then he tried heroin. She spent the first year fighting, the second year praying, and then she simply vanished. Ten years later, they suddenly reconnect.