Zuleikha Opens Her Eyes

Winter 1930. The Tatar peasant woman Zuleikha's husband is killed, and she herself is dispossessed of kulaks and sent along a hard labor route to Siberia. Thirty exiles find themselves abandoned in the remote taiga without food, shelter or warm clothing. Illiterate peasants and Leningrad intellectuals, “declassed elements” and criminals, Muslims and Christians, pagans and atheists, Russians, Tatars, Germans, Chuvash - they all defend their right to life against harsh nature and a ruthless state. Zuleikha finds the strength to go through all the tests, the main ones being the test of love and forgiveness. To survive, you need to love. Even if it is love for your worst enemy. To survive, you need to forgive. Yourself, others, your fate - terrible, and your homeland - cruel. Even history itself, in which, as in every human life, there is so little justice.