There is a dairy farm in one of the remote villages of Russia. It employs mainly women. Every day on the farm is subject to an inevitable cycle. Birth and death, violence and tenderness, beauty and ugliness — all these make up everyday life.

Chronicle of the life of shift workers in a mining quarry in Eastern Siberia. Workers live a significant part of their lives away from home and loved ones, doing manual labor for 12 hours a day for the only decent earnings in their region.