Vladimir and Elena are an older couple who met late in life. Vladimir is rich and cold; Elena is deferential and devout. After Vladimir has a heart attack, he must decide who to leave his money to, and Elena faces a terrible choice…

This drama from Andrei Zvyagintsev, a rising star of Russian cinema, was an award-winning highlight of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival—a slow-burning, suspenseful, deceptively complex story about the lengths that love and family can drive us to.