Moro returns to Alma-Ata to collect money owed to him. While waiting out an unexpected delay, he visits his former girlfriend Dina and discovers she has become a morphine addict. He decides to help her kick the habit and to fight the local drug mafia responsible for her condition.
Acting
Tsoi's effortless cool—he's playing himself, tragically.
Score
Kino's soundtrack haunts every frame like prophecy.
Production
Alma-Ata's concrete brutalism never looked this romantic.
Director
Rashid Nugmanov
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