Nearest and Dearest

Moscow, our days. A family of five lives in a suburb in a small and quite poor apartment: the head of the family Efim, his wife Ekaterina, her elderly mother and two teenage children, Anya and Andrei. Each has their job: the children are at school, going through all the difficulties and pains of puberty, from first love to alcohol and squabbles with teachers; the parents live in the mad rhythm of Moscow life, trying to earn money. Each of them has a whole range of problems, which worry them and require an outlet. Each of them dreams of support and human warmth. But, as so often happens, at home everything just gets worse: the mother fights with the daughter, the father cold-shoulders the son, and the relationship between the parents has nothing in common with love and happy union. Everything is falling apart and life seems unbearable. The old lady, who lives in a separate room and is practically immobile and helpless, is the scapegoat... (Kinotavr)