A happy family, three charming children, love and harmony… The world collapses overnight when the heroine is killed by a car. Her husband doesn't understand how to move on, but at the same time he can't shut himself in and lie down on the couch, otherwise who will take care of the children?
A poetic psychological drama about the adolescence of the Ukrainian-Russian writer Nikolai Gogol filmed for Soviet television at A. Dovzhenko Film Studion in 1988. Based on the short story "Gogol-gimnazist" by Vasili Avenarius.
Nina is a young woman of thirty years, who lives in St. Petersburg. She has to bury her mother in a winter day. The ceremony is an opportunity for her to meet her younger brother Andrei, who lives elsewhere.