The Present Simple Tense
What binds a person to a certain place on Earth? What lets him say, “I'm from here, and this is my land?” What’s setting the boundaries of our existence? The film immerses us in the daily life of a village near Moscow, where local old-timers live side by side with immigrants from Tajikistan. How do the fences arise, then are destroyed and arise once again between cultures and people?
What is really mine in this world, where my borders are, my territory.
And why am I still here?
We fence ourselves off them, we look at them with suspicion: “They are not quite like us – they are different, they are not worth us…” But what are they like in reality, our neighbours?
Two adjacent houses in 25 km from Moscow. In one of them lives an aged couple. He used to be an engineer, She – a school teacher. The other one is occupied by a family of immigrants. They escaped from Tajikistan from a civil war when people who used to live side by side suddenly split into “Us” and “Them”.
These two houses, two families are in the spotlight of the film. What are the relations between these people of absolutely different cultures, different generations, different faiths? How do they change themselves and the place they are living in. And what is going to happen to this place in future?
This is a film about fences. Fences which people erects between each other end destroys.
