Winter Garden

Meredith and Nina Whitson are sisters, but it's hard to find two women more different. One is a homebody, always believing that there is no better destiny than to get married, raise children, and manage the family apple orchard. The... other dreamed of traveling, became a photojournalist covering humanitarian disasters, and roams the world, avoiding conversations about the future and family. Their father's illness brings the sisters together in their parents' home. From their mother with Russian roots, they have never seen anything but icy disapproval, and even now, Anya does not try to get close to her daughters, showing them a well-known detachment. In childhood, only one thing united them with their mother: the fairy tale of the poor girl and the prince, which she told the girls at night. Realizing that he is dying, their father asks his 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.