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Anjelika Mashuryan, Armine Anda, Leona Prokohorenko, Ruben Abrahamyan

"1988, a multi-ethnic town in Soviet Azerbaijan. Eight-year-old Ashen's parents, both Armenian, are divorced, live in different parts of town and are forever in a tug-of-war over the girl. Ashen's father has remarried and his new Russian wife has become a second mother for Ashen. In fact everyone is kind to the girl.

But when the conflict breaks out between Armenia and Azerbaijan, where Ashen lives becomes a far more serious matter. Ashen's mother has to give her over to her father to keep her safe. Ashen survives, but not her family. She loses her father and both mothers. She is saved by an Azerbaijani neighbour who could not save her own daughter, whose father was Armenian. Could this woman become Ashen's third mother? "