Plucked from an orphanage as a literal love slave, the now adult Natalija (a luminous Kseniya Kutepova) serves her ape-like husband by tending his prized cow—whose milk they sell to customers on passing trains. When hubby suddenly drops dead, however, Natalija’s narrow life of cows and rails finally starts opening up. Dumping his body at the local hospital, dropping by church to say a few prayers and trading in the cow for a pet goat, she slowly eliminates all trace of his former hold on her, searching out a new life in the freedom that emerges.
Kseniya Kutepova
Natalia
Dmitriy Dyuzhev
Sergei
Vadim Afanasev
Natalia's husband
Sofiya Dudarchik
Olga
Olga Popova
nurse
Timofey Tribuntsev
policeman
Aleksandr Oblasov
security officer
Boris Petroff
Gleb
