In 1931, following a peasant uprising, 30,000 kulak families were deported from the Altai region to Narym in the Tomsk region.
Nearly a century later, Nikolai Zhivotyagin — the elderly and solitary son of one of those dispossessed peasants — sets out for his father’s homeland in an attempt to reconstruct his lost family history and find surviving relatives.
Will he be able to find a family again?
