Portrait of director Andrei Zvyagintsev on the background of the filming of his film.

Nikolai Kochegarov is the only remaining resident of the village of Pashki. Only one of his houses has survived, standing in the middle of the field. All his life he was in prison, sometimes for his wife, sometimes for theft. He had a son who drank a lot, robbed houses and did nothing. And one day the son attacked his father, but the father defended himself and killed his own son. My father was given a year of probation. This was in 2011. And now he lives all alone, in winter he cannot get into the village. But every summer his daughter Tatyana visits him, who still loves him the way he is. And he loves her. This is a film about love between a father and his daughter, about the Russian soul and about the corners of the earth forgotten by civilization, where passions sometimes heat up to the limit.