Kseniya Otinova

Two young couples come to a family therapist to speak out about the anxieties and feelings that have accumulated during their marriage through a metaphorical story about the life of two elderly married couples.

A girl who has lost her beauty turns to a local saint for help. Waiting for a miracle, she stays in his house and becomes a hermit. An ancient icon becomes her confidant, prompting her to perform the true miracle herself.

19-year-old Egor Chudinov goes in search of his parents, who disappeared during an ethnographic expedition to the Perm Region. Together with his uncle Nikolai and two random fellow travelers — students of philology Tanya and Nadia - Egor moves deeper into the territory, which lives according to its own laws and traditions. There is a gloomy nature here, hermits live in forest dugouts, diseases are treated by sorcerers, and the cause of troubles is considered to be damage caused by witches, and somewhere among the dense forests a bear shaman wanders. At first, Egor is skeptical about the stories about ancient creatures of Komi-Permian mythology, but gradually realizes that the world is much wider than his ideas.

The beginning of the 2000s, a small village on the highway leading to Moscow. The colorful cafe "Cuba" is located here, and Tamara, strong and sharp-tongued, manages it.