A Propos

A newly appointed teacher arrives at a remote village school in 1947. The famous journalist and distinguished poet was downgraded for illegal publications and forbidden anti-Soviet verses. Suspicious locals still prefer to test his loyalties, while children wilingly recite his verses from 'To My Soviet Motherland', written under pressure to prase Uncle Lenin. Eventually, an unforgotten friend shows him a secret wintery path to the Dainava resistance platoon's underground bunker.

It is so damn hard to be an adult. It’s especially hard to be an adult when you’re only 14 years old. Teenager girl Danute is the only "adult" person in her family. Obviously, this is too difficult a task for a teenager. She faces external limitations of her capabilities every day.

The film deals with the Lithuanian partisan resistance. An actor is playing the part of a partisan in a play called "Bunker". During the play he experiences a hallucination and starts believing he's a boy who lives in post-war Lithuania. In 1948 the boy made a mistake which cost the lives of him and the wife of a partisan. Back in 21st century, the actor has a chance to fix that mistake.

The film presents the multifaceted personality of writer Jurgis Kunčinas, his creative workshop; his personal life is discussed openly, without avoiding painful biographical facts.