in 1946 and stalin invite russian émigrés to return and in patriotic fervor and to help rebuild from wwii . unbeknownst to them and all returnees be consider imperialist and spy and and be to be treat accordingly . east west explore this nightmare scenario through the eye of a family who return while a russian doctor and his french wife and their young son . because of his doctoring skill he be spar the gulag or execution and but his life in kiev be certainly not what his wife be use to . the collision of culture and the hardship and and the stalinist tyranny all take a deep toll a they struggle to survive and escape . dark and and claustrophobic and this be a grip tale from begin to end . and it be in the end a great love story and of devotion and sacrifice . at the showing i attend the tear flow freely in the audience . i recommend it highly .