Semyon Ermolaev

Golden autumn. Yakut hinterland. More than ten years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War. A 23-year-old boy named Mahees is given the task by the collective farm chairman to accompany the young teacher to a neighboring village. Aanchyk, that's the name of the girl, after completing her studies, she is assigned to work in a rural school. It would seem that a simple task turns into a real challenge for young people. A bear suddenly appears on their way. He pursues them. The heroes of the film understand that all this is happening to them for a reason. A chain of unusual meetings, strange finds, bitter memories, disturbing dreams and visions lead to the answer to the most important question in the life of the protagonist: who is his father and where did he disappear to?! After all, his father went to war, and never returned... Mehees understands that this is all connected with his father - a former hunter and now a missing soldier.

Yakutia, the 1930s. Old Mikipper and his wife Oppuos live their days in thick taiga. Cows, hunting, fishing make up the simple everyday life of the old people. Once early in the winter an eagle flies into their garden. The old people dare no drive it away because eagles are sacred. All through the winter they feed the bird so that it does no attack their cattle. Gradually they grow accustomed to each other. On a cold Christmas day the eagle makes its way into the house and occupies the honorary place in the corner on the shelf next to the icons. From then on the people and the bird start their life together in one house.

The film is based on the stories of the classic Yakut literature Suorun Omolloon "Light in the Dark" and "Sordooh suha" and tells about the first rudiments of education in Yakutia, about the greedy desire of the Sakha people for knowledge, for light, about the first teachers-enlighteners, political messengers and priests.

In hustle and bustle of urban life, we sometimes don't know our neighbors next door. And in the village, everyone knows each other and lives with the joys, troubles, and worries of a neighbor, like one big family. That's why a person is pulled to their small homeland, to their roots. The one who forgets their roots experiences a burdensome emptiness and dissatisfaction with their achievements in life.

In hustle and bustle of urban life, we sometimes don't know our neighbors next door. And in the village, everyone knows each other and lives with the joys, troubles, and worries of a neighbor, like one big family. That's why a person is pulled to their small homeland, to their roots. The one who forgets their roots experiences a burdensome emptiness and dissatisfaction with their achievements in life.

A young couple encounters supernatural terror in their new home.

Callousness and indifference... When they are around, trouble happens. Everyone needs help sometime. The outstretched hand of a friend in time, the understanding and support of loved ones, the love and sympathy of others. This film is a man's cry for help that goes unheard and unanswered because it cannot permeate the mountain walls.

A middle-aged man returns to his native village to buy an abandoned house, where he spent his childhood, although locals don’t support his decision. Soon, the man finds himself trapped between two realities. Baffled, he is trying to return to the real world. On his way, he can see a sayilyk (a meadow with a summer homestead), where he sees his ancestors and deceased family members. Totally puzzled, he runs away and meets three men who turn out to be wandering souls, spending eternity in anticipation that one day they will be able to move to another world.