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In a mountainous region of Georgia, a dam is being built, threatening to flood the area. However, the residents of old villages, unwilling to leave their homes, are determined to protect their small homeland from mismanagement. This story is about the resilience of these people as they fight to preserve their way of life.
Otar Nizharadze is an unrelenting fighter against the corruption, fraud, and crookedness reigning in the society.
Ivane does not think about starting a family life, so the villagers deicide to force him marry and try to take him and his bride to the church using all the possible means.
The forty-year-old composer, who once showed great promise, becomes a piano tuner. On his old car, the resilient hero drives around Georgia, helping people tune instruments, and does not lose hope that the best music has not yet been written by him.
The film describes the spiritual quest of a young hero whose prototype is georgian writer Guram Rcheulishvili.
Ketevan, a village doctor, is already sending her second son away in the world war. Only the youngest child, Mamuka, remains as the family's hope. Ketevan does not lack care for the sick, lives in hope, and waits for his children to return home. But the harsh reality of the war demands a sacrifice from her again - Ketevani sends his third son to the war as well.
The film tells the life of a Georgian woman from 1920s to the present day. Love, marriage, Russian annexation and collectivization, world war, loss of children - Sidonia went through many sorrows and troubles on her way of life, but she always maintained spiritual courage and hope for the future.
A metaphoric depiction of post-Soviet countries. The artificial environment of the USSR, built on an ideology that was not possible outside of theory has crumbled, but in its place the new cherished "freedom of democracy" remains merely the hollow words of concept. The film takes place in a vast building of a train station, resembling an aquarium. There the lost masses are ruled by chaos. The terror and misunderstandings of their country has been replaced by senseless and heartless bureaucracy. Having lost all hope, the travelers seek to abandon their country and find a new home, but the trains that come rushing through their station are not stopping. We meet people from all walks of life: a couple of lovers; a group of musicians; a priest; a thief; a banker carrying a briefcase of money; models walking idly on a podium; unhappy families; thieves, prostitutes. All seem trapped and cannot leave.
Neighbours in a new house sometimes don't even suspect who might be living behind the wall. They're kind friends out in the street, but each of them fiercely hates the one living behind the thin wall. When will all be revealed and who will win - hatred or friendship?