Mimesis

One winter day in 1934, Pr. Vangengheim was arrested for sabotage and sent to the Gulag on the Solovki Islands. He decided to hide the truth from his wife and daughter Eleonora, until his execution.

The love story of a Yakut teacher and a Russian school principal, which unfolds against the background of perestroika, at the junction of epochs, when the Yakut people need to reassemble their idea of their history and place in it.