Plucked from an orphanage as a literal love slave, the now adult Natalija (a luminous Kseniya Kutepova) serves her ape-like husband by tending his prized cow—whose milk they sell to customers on passing trains. When hubby suddenly drops dead, however, Natalija’s narrow life of cows and rails finally starts opening up. Dumping his body at the local hospital, dropping by church to say a few prayers and trading in the cow for a pet goat, she slowly eliminates all trace of his former hold on her, searching out a new life in the freedom that emerges.

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Cast

Kseniya Kutepova

Natalia

Dmitriy Dyuzhev

Sergei

Timofey Tribuntsev

policeman

Aleksandr Oblasov

security officer

Boris Petroff

Gleb

Tamara Khlebnikova

train conductor

Aleksey Solonitsyn

sexton

Oleg Bilik

merry-go-round operator

Yanina Kogut

cantor

Yevgeni Knyazev

Father Pyotr