Tonya is a bus-driver in a village on the outskirts of Nalchik, a modest city in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Together with her daughter, Tonya is eagerly awaiting the return of her only son, who is fighting for a Russian private military contractor in Syria. When Tonya is told that he has been killed in action, she refuses to believe it. She is sure that there was a mistake and her son is ...

The young man, Isa by name, came back to his native city after leaving the prison. At half-destroyed, dark, left, surrounded by harsh and merciless mountains house seriously ill mother and his wife who lost the hope to have happy family life were expecting him. He did evil and was put in the prison, but the main difficulties are still expecting him in the future.

Tonya is a bus-driver in a village on the outskirts of Nalchik, a modest city in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Together with her daughter, Tonya is eagerly awaiting the return of her only son, who is fighting for a Russian private military contractor in Syria. When Tonya is told that he has been killed in action, she refuses to believe it. She is sure that there was a mistake and her son is ...