Ido Haar's feature length directorial debut tries to do the impossible: unite his 57 year old mother and her father, whom she has never met.
Marina was born 57 years ago in the former Soviet Union. She says she lacks nothing. She has a husband, lovable children, friends... But very soon it becomes clear that something strikes a discord in her seemingly harmonious life. Marina has never met her father.
Marina was still in her mother's womb when her father, an officer and "hero" in the Red Army, left home. He disappeared somewhere in the Siberian steppes. The love of Marina's mother for the man who deserted her never ceased. She tried many times to find him and introduce him to his daughter but never succeeded.
At the beginning of the film, its director, Ido, who is the son of Marina and bears a close resemblance to his grandfather, decides to locate his lost relative and arrange to have him meet his daughter for the first time.
As Ido draws closer to finding his grandfather, Marina's repressed emotions about him rise to the surface - her anger and pain, blaming her missing father and at the same time yearning for him.
The distance between Siberia and Israel is instantly shortened by one telephone call - a dramatic interchange that sets an inevitable course of events into motion.
The film, immersed in the overpowering drama of Russian culture, traces a painful journey that closes a circle, answers a crying need that never diminished over time. At the end of the journey, nothing will be as it was before.
