Spartak Fedotov

Evadés du goulag sur des chevaux yakoutes, un chamane et Dimitri le violoniste s'enfuient dans la taïga. Avant de mourir, le chamane révélée à son compagnon que les esprits l'entourent, et qu'ils l'accompagneront dans ses aventures et ses rencontres vers ces immensités ou aucun homme ne peut survivre seul.

The cold summer of 1953. Escaped prisoners wander into a sayylyk (summer homestead), where only one family lives. The village is far away, other summerers are even further away, there is no one to wait for help. The appearance of escaped prisoners turns into a tragedy for the family.

The sniper-yakut, contrary to the laws of wartime, saved the life of the German boy - the Hitler Youth ...

The end of the 19th century. A tiny colony of lepers in the isolated Yakut taiga. A healthy girl, brought there by chance, falls in love with one of the young male lepers. Soon she is bearing his child. His wife suddenly arrives from the outside world and tragedy ensues within this strange love triangle.