a touching , bitter film. about the other. from ourselves. a parable. and same well known Russia. a love story. and a sign defining as profound drama entire life of a middle age woman. it is strange to describe it because it is only an another Russian story. with clichés and illusions, with Tchekov characters and same disillusions. and, at the second view, the meanings of the drama of Natalia are more profound. because, in fact, all is the simple. a deep solitude, an old mother, the cruelty of the others, the revelation about the only thing who can save her.so, a film about an anomaly. and its sense.