Bars Media

The story of how Aurora Mardiganian (1901-94), a survivor of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire (1915-17), became a Hollywood silent film star.

In a decaying Soviet-era retirement home, a vibrant group of elders cling to life by staging Shakespeare. Yet loneliness lingers beyond the theater’s doors, until drama begins to blur with reality.

After Armenia's defeat in the Karabakh war, Armenia, Russia and Azerbaijan sign an agreement in which Armenia undertakes to surrender five territories adjacent to Nagorno-Karabakh. People who live there must leave their homes before a certain date. A few days before the end of the term, a group of Armenian volunteers, including archaeologists, visits these places to take out Armenian Christian shrines, medieval cross stones, some of the most significant values in Armenian culture. Otherwise, the cross-stones may be destroyed by the Azerbaijanis. On the way, they meet a local resident who was left alone, with things, without transport. Our volunteers have a choice, either to save the cross-stones, or this woman, because there is not enough space in the car for everything at once...

A group of solitary elderly individuals from Armenia, who have been neglected by the society, unify in an amateur dance troupe and prove during each performance that they still can dream, fall in love, amaze and wonder.