Beekeeper Alexei and father Anastasiy are faithful
keepers of Russian village. The heroes of the film
don’t know each other. They live in Kostroma
region, on the outskirts of the old town Galich on the
different sides of the Galich Lake. They both
returned to live in abandoned by people lands. One
serves in a church of the Kazan Mother of God in the
village Bogorodskoye. Another breeds bees in the village
Verkovo. One is called himself the keeper of a
hallowed place, another the keeper and the mayor of
the village Verkovo. There is little hope that anybody
will return to live at the abandoned villages. The last
hope is our Russian maybe. The word that incarnates
all irony of Russian thinking and of life in Russia in
general, of life despite circumstances.