This is a story about a fantastic world, where magic and miracles are an integral part of a reality. Skilled wizards promote the development of their secret science, while ordinary people can only suspect its existence and the real place that it occupies in their life. The events that the film relates are unleashed by …

Jacob, a farmer, returns from the war to his wife Marie and begs the landlord baron for a plot of land to rent. The Baron grants the request, but only for a barren, rocky, useless acreage. The pair struggle to make do on this land, but then the Baron demands that Maria leave her husband to serve as wet nurse to his mar…

電影一開始就是孤獨走在路上的尼基塔。他在戰爭結束後回到家，雖然身體沒有受傷，被殘酷戰爭所摧殘的心靈之傷卻無法可醫。他問父親：「你怎麼可能經過了戰爭，卻毫髮無傷？」他遇到了女孩，他們很久以前就認識了。女孩原本有許多的兄弟姊妹，有一個高貴豪華的家庭，但他們一個個離開了，只剩下女孩一個人住。尼基塔在女孩身上看到了同樣的，不知…

列车随记忆缓缓前驶，她回到当年因为战乱而逃离的故乡，想要接走留在老家的祖母，但这次，就自己也找不到离开的火车了。当流亡、战火、饥饿、死亡逼使所有人退至生存的绝境，当故乡的一切都只剩下透光的残破屋瓦，究竟还有什么可以寄托乡愁与思念？导演以充满情感的凝敛影像，将发生于九零年代高加索地区的战乱悲剧，转化为个人对国族的感性思索…