
The film is set during the last summer before the Great Patriotic War. Three sisters are coming to stay with their grandmother in the village. They imagine the world as a vast and charming "Garden of desires" and all members of the household are waiting for Asya's birthday. Asya has a sense of foreboding regarding the impending grief. Guests come to visit but none of them are her parents. She still does not know that her father was declared an enemy of the people, that tomorrow she will not see her mother and that the war is approaching.

as Asya

as Valeriya

as Tomka

as Grandmother

as Grandfather

as Innokenti

as Pavel

as Likho

as Kirill

as Ivan

as Asya's Mother

as Sorceress