The men of the Urals are so суровый that some of them—somehow—aren’t quite human...
Student Kostya Doshkin decides to escape for the summer from the dreary, hopeless life of the city to a village where his grandfather’s inheritance—a very old house—keeps not arriving. But it turns out that besides the pastoral charms like mowing fields, livestock, haylofts, homemade spirits, and all that sort of thing, the quiet village of Tikhoye, generation after generation, keeps ancient vows and secrets. Here, it’s only a hand’s reach away from the dark Slavic gods; magic is commonplace; and the horrors are quite real.
Contains profanity.