Fiercely independent nature-loving 48-year-old Etero (Eka Chavleishvili) has a near-death experience while blackberry picking on a walk through the familiar surroundings of her small Georgian village. A later life-altering experience comes in the form of delivery worker Murman’s (Temiko Chichinadze) arrival at the toiletry store where she works.
Igniting a firey passion which was hitherto absent from her life, their intimate affair proves a transformative moment in the life of the once-solitary Etero.
Eka Chavleishvili gives one of the finest performances of the year in this wonderfully observed, charmingly liberating character study which celebrates female sexuality in later life, whilst giving a fierce, wry testimony to the virtues of independence. Elene Naveriani’s rapturous, emotionally authentic cinematic adaptation of the trailblazing novel by Tamta Melashili is a quietly powerful, bittersweet gem.