This story is based on numerous real-life stories of those who chose to stay unnamed. A young provincial girl full of vitality, who is dancing to “My Boy,” doesn’t even suspect that soon, when she goes to conquer the capital, she will meet a man, and that this meeting will put an abrupt end to her dreams. The heroine will turn into “that woman,” the mistress. The one who is being kept. She will have to walk the way. She will forget her bright hopes and lose herself completely for the sake of wealth. Will she  nd the strength to escape the never-ending awaiting, emptiness and humiliation? Is she still capable of this step after so many years of being “kept”?

The Lost Reflection: Confessions of a Kept Woman

In a nostalgic Moscow of 1976, an unlucky actor meets a charismatic writer, a living classic of Soviet literature, who turns his life into a tragicomic farce with the artistic bohemia, foreign-currency prostitutes, the KGB staff and agents of the CIA.