Top Cast
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Olga Smirnova
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Aleksandr Nikolskiy
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Alexandr Zhukov
Overview
The life of fifteen-year-old Sasha Kuznetsov seems ordinary: school, friends, tests. But behind simple conversations with his mother lies pain that they both try not to name out loud.
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