Elena and Vladimir come from very different backgrounds. Vladimir is a wealthy, cold man, while Elena comes from a modest background, serving as his docile wife. The two of them have met late in life, each with a child from a previous marriage. Vladimir has a distant relationship with his daughter. In contrast, Elena desperately tries to save her alcoholic son and his family from poverty with means she alone could not provide. When her husband Vladimir has a heart attack, he suddenly realizes his time on earth is limited. A tender but brief reunion with his daughter... leads him to name her as the sole heir to his fortune. When Vladimir announces this change to Elena, her hope to help her son quickly vanishes. Submissive housewife Elena then comes up with a plan to provide her son and his family with a real change in life. Special Features: Interview with Andrey Zvyagintsev. [show more]
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Andrei Zvyagintsev directs and co-writes this Russian suspense drama. Elena (Nadezhda Markina) is a former nurse now married to a rich husband, Vladimir (Andrey Smirnov). The middle-aged couple's marriage comes under strain when Elena asks her husband to give financial support to Sergey (Aleksey Rozin), her unemployed son from a previous marriage, and his family. Vladimir refuses to help Sergey and goes further, changing his will to make his long-estranged daughter, Katya (Elena Lyadova), his sole heiress. Furious with her husband and with nowhere to turn, Elena decides to take matters into her own hands.
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