Synopsis
A quiet and steady life of a successful young man literally goes downhill when, after losing control of his car on the wet highway, he runs over a pedestrian. At first he wants to confess but it may lead to an investigation and he might be just a stone’s throw from a prison term. The wife tries to talk him out of it saying that no one saw anything so why should he ruin his life? Alexander gives in and decides to make this compromise with his conscience. He leaves the injured man by the hospital doors and returns home. However, guilt makes his life unbearable and he can’t forget about what he’s done. Alexander visits the hospital where he meets the injured man’s young wife, Lyuba. Remorse and compassion are an explosive mix. Sasha decides to take care of the grief-stricken young woman and suddenly realizes that he wouldn’t describe his feeling towards the victim’s wife as compassion. What should he do? If he doesn’t confess the truth, his whole life will become one big lie. If he tells her that he was the cause of the tragedy, he will lose his first and only true love he’s found. To lose his love or compromise his conscience, what will he choose?
Theatrical feature film
Produced by (RWS): Andrei Smirnov, Yuri Sapronov, Dmitri Meskhiev
Produced by (Three T Studio): Nikita Mikhalkov, Leonid Vereshchagin
Directed by: Anton Sivers
Director of Photography: Yuri Shajgardanov
Written by: Oleg Malovichko
Production Designer: Natalya Kochergina
Executive producer: Mikhail Vavilov
Cast: Andrei Merzlikin, Kristina Kuzmina, Tatyana Cherkasova, Andrei Noskov, Nikolai Dobrynin, Valeri Nemeshayev, and Fedya Nikitin.
