WE ARE HERE. WE ARE CLOSE

By Roman BALAYAN

IDAS INTERNATIONAL FILM - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2019

A surgeon, who lost his godson on the operating table, quits his job and starts helping
a strange girl whose past is shrouded in mystery.

Festivals
& Awards

Warsaw FF 2020
International Competition
Warsaw FF 2020
international competition
Kiev Molodist 2020
Ukrainian premiers
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • UKRAINE
    • Languages
    • UKRANIAN
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Roman BALAYAN
    • Writer(s)
    • Roman BALAYAN
    • Producer(s)
    • Ivanna DYADYURA (IDAS INTERNATIONAL FILM)
    • Synopsis
    • A famous surgeon Oleksiy misdiagnoses a 7-year-old boy, the son of his friends and his own godson; the boy dies in the operating room. Shocked
      Oleksiy decides to quit his practice.
      On the chilly autumn morning, while sitting on the river bank where they used to fish with his late godson, Oleksiy suddenly notices the slender
      figure of a half-naked woman stepping out from the fog. She’s shaking out of cold after stepping to the bank, Oleksiy involuntarily offers her help,
      hence becoming a part of the adventurous story which has it all: inexplicable lies from the strange lady, the leading character being beaten, his
      anger and repentance, car chases, elusiveness of the truth and the pain of compassion, the incredible understanding of birds and animals by the
      heroine, as well as subtle yet unavoidable getting together of two lonely people who were almost hating each other at first, but as it turns out, they
      are destined to be together.
      Only at the very end the leading character will figure out the secret of the strange woman, and the hospital investigation will show that there is
      nothing to blame the surgeon for: there are rare and tragic unavoidable events. Same as happy unavoidable events. Misdiagnosis, not necessarily
      in medical terms, as well as quickness of human judgement complicates and corrupts lives, but it may also bring on the grace of enlightenment.