Overview

Tonya is a bus-driver in a village on the outskirts of Nalchik, a modest city in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Together with her daughter, Tonya is eagerly awaiting the return of her only son, who is fighting for a Russian private military contractor in Syria. When Tonya is told that he has been killed in action, she refuses to believe it. She is sure that there was a mistake and her son is alive. She begins a grueling public battle with the contractor and the authorities, demanding the return of her son. When it becomes obvious that all efforts to silence Tonya are fruitless, a strange young man arrives on her doorstep...

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Cast

Kseniya Rappoport

Tonja

Yura Borisov

Zhenya

Aleksandr Gorchilin

Nazarov

Natalya Pavlenkova

Anya

Nikolay Butenin

military commissar

Grigory Chaban

agent

Roman Kryukov

bus park's director

Igor Pavlov

Dmitriy Anatolievich

Oleg Guseynov

Arsen

Yekaterina Shumakova

Ksyukha