Ugnė Šiaučiūnaitė

Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.

Au lendemain de la seconde guerre mondiale, dans un village isolé en Lituanie, alors que la misère ne laisse place à aucune liberté, le jeune Ounté et le mouvement des Partisans dans lequel il s’est engagé, doivent faire acte de résistance face à l’emprise de l’occupation soviétique. De cette lutte désespérée dépend l’avenir de tout un peuple.

Miglė, who married when she was very young, has for 26 years been divorced from her ex-husband who one day calls her and asks for a favour. He has found that it would be a good time to get married again after the death of his mother. But there is a small problem: their divorce is valid only in the eyes of the law, because a Catholic marriage cannot be divorced. It can, however, be annulled. All that needs to be done is to complete an application and give the “Catholic court” a good reason. But she does not know in what kind of absurd situations she is about to find herself in.

A newly appointed teacher arrives at a remote village school in 1947. The famous journalist and distinguished poet was downgraded for illegal publications and forbidden anti-Soviet verses. Suspicious locals still prefer to test his loyalties, while children wilingly recite his verses from 'To My Soviet Motherland', written under pressure to prase Uncle Lenin. Eventually, an unforgotten friend shows him a secret wintery path to the Dainava resistance platoon's underground bunker.

A group of classmates celebrate their graduation in an isolated place about which a sinister story is told.