Alyona Miroshnikova

In a small Ural village live only simple ordinary people except for the local hearing-impaired “fool” lyosha. he lives in a makeshift house made of garbage, weekly draws strange circles on the fields and tries to catch radio waves 24 hours a day in hope to contact representatives of extraterrestrial civilizations. the villagers laugh at lyosha and his strange hobbies, but everything changes when the one he has been calling for so long finally visits him.

On the day of the funeral, while relatives argue over the failed wake and a wedding thunders beyond the neighbor's fence, thirteen-year-old Vasilisa tries to find within herself a sense of loss that seems to be felt by everyone around her except her.