A widower decides to cremate his wife by the banks of the Volga, an area spiritually important to his ancestors and close to where they went on honeymoon. A friend agrees to accompany him, but over the course of the journey, the grieving husband discovers his travelling companion was also in love with her. Drama, starring Igor Sergeev and Yuriy Tsurilo. In Russian.

Miron Alekseevich, director of a paper and pulp mill, goes to bury his wife Tanya in the place where they once spent their honeymoon. He goes not alone, but with a photographer named Stork, to whom he tells touching details of his life with Tanya. The narrative weaves together the memories of the characters, as well as the rituals and beliefs of the Meri people, a small Finnish tribe that once lived in the Northern Volga region and dissolved among the Russians.