Winter Garden

Meredith and Nina Whitson are sisters, but it's hard to find two women more different. One is a homebody who always believed that there is no better fate than getting married, raising children, and running the family apple orchard. The other dreamed of adventures, became a photojournalist covering humanitarian disasters, and travels the world, avoiding conversations about the future and family. Their father's illness brings the sisters together in their parents' home. From their mother, who has Russian roots, they have never seen anything but icy disapproval, and even now, Anya does not try to get close to her daughters, displaying a well-known detachment. In childhood, only one thing united them with their mother: the fairy tale about the poor girl and the prince that she told the girls at night. Realizing he is dying, their father asks the daughters to finish listening to the fairy tale - to the very end. Thus begins the journey of two women into their mother's past, into her life in besieged Leningrad, into the terrifying and beautiful icy world.