Synopsis

The year is 2020. A 10-year-old girl is amusing herself to the best of her ability during online classes. She terribly misses the outside world. One day her dad gets her a microscope hoping it would distract her from the gloomy reality of isolation. The gift irritates her at the start until it reveals tiny mysterious creatures that live in the drops of rain water. These mysterious creatures are tardigrades. Slowly, by watching these creatures, the girl begins to associate herself with them.

Sofia Silkina

Sofia Silkina studied at the theater school of Kazan, after which she worked as an actress. During her high school years, she arranged a hooligan painting exhibition titled “Passions for the unified state exam”. To her disappointment, this exam was not canceled after. In 2016, she took a filmmaking course at the Moscow Film School. During this time, she made her first film. In 2019, she entered the Directing Department at Moscow Film School, but due to personal matters decided to postpone her studies. Now she is filming a movie, raising her daughter, and participating in exhibitions as part of the art group Stremnizm, which she founded in 2014.