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In a Kazakh village of the 1930s, Qara Bala is a beloved young man, the pride of his mother and the village. His future is already planned with a bride chosen for him, but everything changes when he falls in love with a married woman — Balgyng. This forbidden love clashes with the harsh realities of traditional society, and Qara Bala must decide between his heart’s desire and the expectations of the community.
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Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given the chance to help the old eatery regain its former glory. The ‘Winter Palace’ soon becomes a place of unexpected encounters between people who are all undergoing some sort of crisis and whom fate has now brought together.