

Emilia, a journalist from Moscow, has everything - name and fame, wealth, spectacular career and family well being - but nothing brings her happiness. Trying to pull her out of life crisis her family members and colleagues impose on her conventional way of life but it gives no results. She closed herself in dark empty room, keeping her head at gunpoint and starts to count from one to thousand. The dark room becomes like a time machine which throws a heroine into the past events in the labyrinth of her life, the labyrinth which has the only one way out now - HELL.
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Status
Released
Original Language
RU

A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house, being conducted largely in German and involving her HUAC prosecutor. She begins to investigate, enlisting the help of the FBI Agent initially detailed to surveil her.


муж Эмилии
The protagonist Vlad is a man of about forty; he lives and works as watchman in an old sanatorium that is due to be demolished. He obviously needs this work to live the life of a hermit. One night a married couple appears at the sanatorium: Vera and Stas. They are on the run. They are pursued by former friends and business partners of Stas. Vlad decides to help them, because he too is hiding from the past. Each character is threatened with the inevitable payment for wrong choices in the past, but helping each other, they try to expiate these faults.