Mama, I'm Home

Tonya drives a bus. She lives in a village near Nalchik. It is a small place in the republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. She shares the house with her daughter. They are waiting for her son to come home. The young man is in Syria. He is working there for a private military company. One day word reaches the woman. She is told that her son has been killed. Tonya does not believe it. She is certain there has been a mistake. She knocks on the doors of the company and the authorities. When she gets no answer she takes the matter into the open. The effort is long and wearing. Then a young man turns up at her door. Kseniya Rappoport and Yura Borisov take the leads in Vladimir Bitokov’s Russian and American coproduction of 2022.