Agniya Yelikoyeva

At the heart of the movie - true stories about separations and meetings, about search of relatives, the proceeding many years after war.

The film portrays the life of the legendary Azerbaijani guerrilla of the Second World War Mehdi Huseynzadeh, who fought the Nazi forces in the present-day Italy and Slovenia, hence the film's name On distant shores referring to the Adriatic Sea.