

Season 1 • Episode 8
LatestTaxi driver Larisa Aidarova from a small seaside town is preparing for the wedding with her beloved Maksim, with whom she has been working and living together for more than a year. But all plans collapse when Maksim is detained on suspicion of murder.
Acting
Khodchenkova's controlled devastation—she barely blinks, wrecked.
Cinematography
Bleak seaside greys that swallow characters whole.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a wave of post-Soviet 'provincial noir' examining systemic collapse through intimate crime. The seaside setting mirrors economic decay.
Svetlana Khodchenkova deliberately underplayed Larisa's grief after consulting with real taxi drivers who described emotional shutdown as survival.