The film’s central figure is an elderly woman living on Vasilyevsky Island — Inga Alexandrovna Balabanova. Through conversations with her we slip into her life and her past, which comes into view not as a footnote to a famous director’s career, but the story of a mother living on after her son. Memory takes her back to the days when he was simply Alyosha Balabanov, and to their family.
