Our days. A comet is approaching planet Earth, which must destroy it. The government is disbanded, communications and transport links are absent. The world is in a state of chaos. The main characters, Anna and Andrey, who live in a provincial town, in spite of everything, continue to wait for their sons, who left the city nine years ago. They dream of meeting this event in the family circle. Children come, but real family reunification costs the heroes much more. The comet is getting closer, and you have to have time to say everything, but the most important words turn into insults.
Acting
Yuliya Aug carries decades of maternal regret in every gesture
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes the mundane before the sky falls
Cinematography
Cramped interiors against endless sky—claustrophobia meets cosmic insignificance
Director
Dmitry Tarkhov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russian 'dacha culture' informs everything: the provincial house as both sanctuary and prison, family as obligation masquerading as love.
Tarkhov and Akopyan shot during actual pandemic lockdowns—the empty streets aren't production design, they're documentary.
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