This documentary has two central characters: 20-year-old ballerina Olga Tretyakova and 40-year-old Alexander Khomyakov, a deaf-mute man with a disability.
Olga is filmed in rehearsals and in scenes from Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet «Romeo and Juliet».
Alexander lives in a village, in the home of his elder sister. To the best of his ability he helps her with the household.
The paths of these two characters never cross, and they are not related in any way.
What, then, has brought them together in a single film?
Perhaps the answer lies in the words of Alexander’s older friend, the village philosopher Makarov: «The sky above us is endless — it is one and the same for everyone in the world».
This poetic film does not avoid social issues either, the chief of which is the catastrophic decline in Russia’s population. In an unexpected way that theme is echoed by the chain of deaths in Shakespeare’s tragedy — a balletic transformation of «Romeo and Juliet» runs through the whole picture.
An attentive viewer will notice many other philosophical and poetic allusions, which bind the film’s very different strands into a single whole.
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