Synopsis

Daryna from Ukraine works as a housekeeper for a well-off lawyer and his mother in Italy, sending money back home so that her family can enjoy a better life. After a very long time away, she returns to her home village in the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains to reunite with her husband and daughter. She notices that her family has changed over the course of her two-year absence. She also discovers that she is ten weeks pregnant, which she keeps to herself. By using several flashbacks in his intertwined drama, the director and scriptwriter, Taras Tkachenko, illustrates how the film’s central characters are motivated by money and how this increasingly affects their relations. Daryna is completely torn between two lives and struggles for her dignity as a woman and a mother. A solution that would make everyone happy does not seem to exist. Hence The Nest of the Turtledove, as an intelligent debate about work–related migration, does not judge its protagonists. Daryna’s fate is certainly not an individual one: Almost four million Ukrainians work abroad nowadays

Guests

TARAS TKACHENKO

Taras Tkachenko
Director The Nest of the Turtledove
In Vienna: March 24-28