A dying man's last chess move: marry the new girl or beg the ex who hates him?
48 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestSeveral years ago, a successful businessman Andrei learned that one of his three daughters was not from him. He divorced his wife and obtained full custody of the children, prohibiting his ex-wife from approaching them. Everything was going well, until one day Andrei was diagnosed with a terrible diagnosis: he has cancer, and he has a few months to live. He understands that girls need a mother, otherwise no one will take care of them after his death. Andrei proposes to his girlfriend, but then accidentally meets his ex-wife and understands that he still loves her.
Acting
Samoylenko's desperate, crumbling patriarch
Direction
Kott's claustrophobic family tension
Writing
Paternity secret time-bomb construction
Creator
Aleksandr Kott
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russian family dramas often center paternal redemption arcs that Western counterparts reserve for mothers—reflecting post-Soviet anxieties about male provider collapse.
Kott directed this immediately after his 2019 military drama 'The Pilot,' making this his deliberate pivot to intimate domestic warfare.
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