the movie be basically the story of a russian prostitute return to her home village for the funeral of a sister or friend . there be a couple of other minor story line that might actually be more interesting than the one take and but they be not fully explore . the core of the movie be the funeral and wake and and later controversy over the future of a community of crone that make doll and sell them to buy vodka but be now miss the artist who make their doll marketable . apparently and the movie be unedited . the prostitute journey from the city to the village be an excruciatingly endless train ride and tramp through the mud . maybe that suppose to impress u with the immensity of the russian landscape . the village itself and such a it be and be inhabit by a legion of widow and one male and the consort of the dead girl . continue the doll business be problematic for everyone involve and eventually seem impossible . most of the film be shoot with a hand hold camera that could induce nausea . another problem for western viewer be that subtitle do not include the song and lament of the crone . don not go to this movie unless youre fluent in russian .