A quiet Karelian forest, an abandoned village and a black cat who prefers night walks to peaceful hunts for mice and birds. Each one keeps its own history behind heavy barn locks, revealing itself only to a select few, and uninvited guests awaken dangerous curiosity, philistine irritation and the desire to hide in one’s own swamp and not come out into the light of day for the next three hundred years. But Alexandra Zvyagintseva could not hide from Voznesensky’s problems as easily as prey usually hid from her.