Twenty-five-year-old Vadym earns a living recording and selling all kinds of different sounds; nevertheless, he’d rather exchange his life in Kyiv for a better future in far-flung Canada. Thus, when he gets a generous job offer which might help him realise his dream, he jumps at the chance; he soon sets off to record the sounds of animals indigenous to Ukraine and also a rare bird native to the Carpathians. The situation proves somewhat more complicated when Vadym’s companion on the trip turns out to be his mother… To the sounds of a synthesized music score, debuting Ukrainian director Antonio Lukich unfolds a visually creative road movie, in which he demonstrates a highly unusual talent for constructing tragicomic situations.

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Cast

Andrii Lidahovskyi

Vadym Rott

Irma Vitovska

Halyna Rott

Iryna Verenych-Ostrovska

Vira Ivanivna

Serhii Volosovets

Yosyp

Istan Rozumny

Petro

Pavlo Dovhan-Levytskyi

Roland Mishko

Pavlik

Olexa Gorodenko

leader of smugglers

András Kacsur

Trader

Sergei Sibel

Ihor Feofylovych