Lent is one of the most important events in the life of an Orthodox person. The film tells about the quest, doubts, extremes and experiences of a young man who chose a difficult path of abstinence not only from many worldly goods, but also from all thoughts that contradict his own picture of the world, based on religious dogmas. On his way, he encounters, it would seem, everyday and ordinary questions for a modern person, nevertheless, which do not fit his world outlook. Leaving efforts to resist to all that in his opinion "it is impossible, not arbitrary," he tries to get used to, to accept, to reach a balance with the world in which he lives.

Sunday of the Prodigal Son

Quiet aria is a docu-drama about drug addicts in rehabilitation. They live in the village of Pashitni, Pskov region. A quiet area of the region is now welcomes the new fates of the boys, who are barely eighteen. They were left with a prayer, a herd of cows, a summer sky black with stars, a pack of cigarettes for each, a ghostly hope for a bright tomorrow, and they themselves had each other.