
The movie is based on the real story of Nika Turbina, once world-famous Soviet child poetess, who got completely forgotten in the 1990s. That's when we meet her: at the age of 27 Nika is full of hopes and doubts regarding her gift. Due to the age restriction, she's got just one shot to enter the Drama School, and that's her only chance to separate from her cherishing and oppressive mother. Acquaintance with a new friend Ivan gives Nika hope for a happy future, but there is still something in her memory that triggers her. Tragically cheerful, painfully confused and desperately believing in love and life after childhood, Nika puts everything on the line to overcome ghosts of the past.

as Nika Turbina

as Nika's mother

as young Nika

as Vanya

as Roma

as Yasha

as Igor

as Larik

as Vanya's mother

as Vanya's father

as Evgeniy Evtushenko

as editor

as Andrey

as female doctor

as on-call doctor

as ward roommate

as applicant 1

as teacher 1

as teacher 2

as secretary of the commission

as Masha

as reporter

as customer

as Stepan

as party friend

as movie theater clerk

as guy

as chairman of the commission