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Anna films a derelict church in a Siberian village where her grandmother once sang in the choir. Shots of peeling frescoes give way to an interview with the local priest, who admits he holds services for just three parishioners. The documentarian explores how ancient rituals and everyday indifference to faith coexist in modern Russia. The 2025 film becomes a journey through half-forgotten shrines—from monasteries of the Russian North to homemade icon corners in prefabricated apartment blocks. The director offers no easy answers, instead observing how the sacred dissolves into the mundane, and the profane sometimes unexpectedly gains spiritual meaning. We watch a young programmer light a candle before a job interview, and an old woman pray in front of a TV soap opera.