Drops of light

Arman Chilingaryan
2021-04-04

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93 min

The film tells the story of independent Armenia after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1993. After being released from military arrest and demobilized, Arsen returns home. His parents died in a car accident while he was in custody. His army background and what happened to him there influenced Arsen. Silently reliving the past, he tries to adapt to civilian life. An army commander who has become a clergyman is trying to help him. Arsen meets Marie, escorts a lonely girl home. A trolleybus traveling through empty streets stops due to a rolling power outage, and Arsen continues to accompany the mysterious stranger. Because of his inner warmth and undisguised admiration, he does not even notice the cold desolation of the city, as if there were two of them in the world.