Aleksandr Suchkov

It happened in the sixties, during the political thaw in the Soviet Union... but our story unfolds in the coldest terrain of the country. It was an unexplored and unbeaten terrain of boundless ice-field and forbidding rocks. This was the proper place for real men and real romantics. Our story is about the geologists prospecting gold in the Extreme North.

Quelque part sur la steppe, au bord du Don, la jeune Vera vit avec sa petite fille et Valery, son mari alcoolique, dans des conditions d'extrême dénuement. Lors d'un mariage, ses yeux croisent ceux de Pavel. Un amour fou naît entre eux.

An ordinary chocolate factory worker begins to hear the voices of extraterrestrial civilizations, and habitual tenor of her life starts changing rapidly.