The Best Years of Rita

The collapse and apathy "in one bottle" – this is the mood in Moscow in 2015 among thoughtful people who understand how dangerously the norms of life have been disrupted and what it may lead to. And Rita Hermanova, a strong and extraordinary forty-year-old woman who has achieved everything in her life through her own efforts, is undoubtedly a thinking person.

"To start some new enterprise? But if that were possible, then the current one wouldn't be in vain. She doesn’t have within her that substance from which she could mold an external life for herself now."

And suddenly, completely unexpectedly, the thing that Rita finds to occupy what she believes to be her vague time changes her life more than completely.