The end of the 19th century. A tiny colony of lepers in the isolated Yakut taiga. A healthy girl, brought there by chance, falls in love with one of the young male lepers. Soon she is bearing his child. His wife suddenly arrives from the outside world and tragedy ensues within this strange love...
Gorgeously shot in the wide-open Siberian wilderness this outdoor adventure chronicles the dramatic escape of a big-city bred violinist from a Siberian labor camp. Underlying the action is the tale of a man who learns to become one with his environment rather than trying to dominate it. The story...
The cold summer of 1953. Escaped prisoners wander into a sayylyk (summer homestead), where only one family lives. The village is far away, other summerers are even further away, there is no one to wait for help. The appearance of escaped prisoners turns into a tragedy for the family.
