Nikolay Eremkin

Spoiled seven-year-old Vanka lives a carefree childhood. Going with his father to the Maslenitsa holiday, Vanka meets a runaway deserter in the forest, about whom he tells the adults. This act instantly deprives Vanka of his childhood, and the father of his child. The event opens his eyes to the adult world in which the child will have to live on.

Sixteen-year-old Eva, who suffers from a genetic condition, wants to go abroad through an inclusive program, but her father is unwilling to let her go. Consequently, Eva decides to forge a pregnancy certificate in order to gain full legal capacity before reaching the age of majority. She sets off into the woods with her older sister and her friends to arrange the certificate with a doctor friend—unaware that this journey is about to turn into a terrifying nightmare.

A son who has left Abkhazia for the Russian North writes a letter to his father who remained in the mountains. His days are marked by the monotonous hum of the factory, cold sunrises, and a yearning for the warmth of home. The letter’s lines are steeped in childhood nostalgia: the smell of an old apartment, a southern forest, cows wandering through it.