Polunoshchnitsa [Midnight Office]

In the spring of 2016, Muscovite Pavel goes to Valaam to look for relatives, restoring the history of forty years ago. In the seventies, there was a boarding school in the monastery on the island, where WWII veterans and their families lived out their lives. Semyon finishes school there and dreams of becoming a doctor. His motorboat flies, spreading Ladoga into two white whiskers, and seals are basking in the shallows, and fires are drawn from the shore, and the bell that survived the war is buzzing. Very soon this world will collapse due to the shot of a Finnish rifle...