Givi Shavgulidze

Directed by Maria Saakyan, a native of Armenia who has lived in Russia since the early 1990s, the film shows Lena (Anna Kapaleva) returning to her village in the Caucasus in an effort to convince her grandparents to flee the fighting that is enveloping the area. (Paul Abelsky)

A mother is informed that her only son, who is serving in a military combat zone, has gone missing in action. A soldier who served alongside her son soon arrives to confirm that he has probably been killed. Nothing interrupts the everyday course of events. After a short while, the mother notices a homeless boy - an immigrant worker with an injured hand. She takes him in. (festivalscope.com)