Ihor, 30 years old, has been living in the zone of Chornobyl for almost ten years. He wanted to find peace and a chance to escape from modern civilization. Psychological issues, both personal and global, are still troubling him. He embodies both harmonizing peace and supernatural stress. And also, an existential secret. A secret of the essence of life. He is surrounded by the elderly inhabitants of Chornobyl who live in villages entirely overcome by nature. They lead their own unrealistic, Atlantean life, and even the war in Ukraine seems to be happening on another planet for them.
Viesturs Kairišs was born in 1971 in Riga, Latvia. He graduated from the Latvian Academy of Culture as a theatre and film director and upon graduation started working as a resident stage director at The New Riga Theatre.
Selected: Kāzas (2000), Pa ceļam aizejot (2001), Romeo un Džulijeta (2004), Tumšie brieži (2006), Loengrīns no Varka Kru (2009), Pelikāns tuksnesī (2013)
