Tonya is a bus-driver in a village on the outskirts of Nalchik, a modest city in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Together with her daughter, Tonya is eagerly awaiting the return of her only son, who is fighting for a Russian private military contractor in Syria. When Tonya is told that he has...
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom is so high that the family is forced not only to sell its small business, but also to seek help from its fellow tribesmen.
A modest teacher of ancient literature, Andrey, accidentally witnesses a bank robbery. This is how he meets Sergey, who introduces himself as the head of the security service. The sudden friendship of two opposites will trigger a whole series of sudden, tragicomic and strange events, thanks to...
The youngest son returns home to help his father and brothers meet the targets for a profitable order on cut wood. During his absence nothing has changed: the same back-breaking toil for the sake of a piece of bread, the same resistance from the neighbouring settlement, the same inability of the...
After the divorce Mariyana returns to his native village. With her no one communicates, except for a new neighbor - a mysterious woman in a Muslim scarf.
For the first time in a long time, the family gathers together to congratulate mom on her birthday, but the old conflict between the two brothers leads to irreparable consequences.
