Guram Pirtskhalava

A family drama, it tells the tale of Eve, whose intended husband is killed, plunging her into despair. While the truth of his death is shockingly revealed, a political backdrop of revolution and its consequences unfolds, contextualising the drama with a deeper meaning. (denofgeek.com)

The story, in flashback, of the death of a British Telegraph engineer in Georgia, USSR in 1920. Caught up in a civil war, and a war between his girlfriend and the women the Company send as "Christmas presents", he seeks asylum in a small patch of British territory (round one of his telegraph poles.) (imdb)

In 1930s Tbilisi a young woman whose father was an executed "enemy of the people" and whose mother was deported to Siberia leaves her orphanage and returns to what she expects to be an empty apartment, only to find it's been appropriated by a member of the Stalinist secret service.