Kitezh-grad

Yana is twenty-seven years old. She has been living and working in Moscow since 2021. Yana moved to the capital from a small town nine years ago. All these years she has been writing letters to Anton, a school friend with whom she lost touch long ago, but she never sends them. Yana has a dream — to find a home. After years of wandering, she finally rents a cozy studio in the center of Moscow, just as she always wanted. But the dream deceives Yana: the new apartment only intensifies her loneliness, workaholism and longing for the past. Disappointed, Yana decides to return to her hometown. But after nine years it no longer feels like home: everything has changed, and there is no place for her even in her parents' house. The reunion with Anton goes terribly — they have become strangers with nothing to talk about. Destroying her letters, Yana returns to Moscow. She falls into a crisis, quits her job and flies to Georgia to spend the winter, where the events of February 2022 find her. Yana starts doing charity work, returns to writing and discovers a new understanding of home within herself.