family drama

Between two wanderers, home flickers into being.

Vitaliy Akimov portrays his family in the shrinking Russian provincial town of Arsenyev. His ten-year-old nephew Stepan acts as a guide to this grim environment, appropriately filmed in black and white.

After surviving a near fatal assault during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a piano teacher teaches her daughter a lullaby in preparation for her piano recital.