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The protagonist of the film - a pensioner, in the life of which brings a variety of new intercom. He becomes for her something like a second TV. This fantastic story is really about how an old person is often closer and more familiar to the past than the present, in which there are many new and frightening things. Of course, one must live in the present, but when given the chance to look one place to where you once were happy - why not ...
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RU

The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.

A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.