A son's race against war to save the mother he abandoned — will the sun rise for either of them?
The story of how a son gets a second chance to find a mother. About how war generates only human grief and creates unhealed wounds. The hero of the picture, 40-year-old Walter, left his native land for several years and works as a foreman at one of the Moscow construction projects. He builds not only houses in Russia, but also tries to build his new life. However, one day a phone call from his homeland breaks all his plans. Walter learns that the hostilities have reached the village in the mountains where his mother lives.
Acting
Grebenshchikov's silence speaks entire novels of guilt
Cinematography
Mountain landscapes as funeral portraits of a dying homeland
Director
Robert Def
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film belongs to a wave of post-2014 Russian cinema grappling with military conflicts in border regions, often through intimate family stories rather than explicit battle scenes.
Director Robert Def reportedly shot the mountain village sequences in actual locations affected by regional instability, with some extras being real displaced residents.
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