Roads to Koktebel

After a widowed father (Igor Csernyevics) is fired from his engineering job due to his alcoholism, he and his 11-year-old son (Gleb Puskepalis) set out from their Moscow home on foot, jumping trains and hitching rides towards the Crimean coast. On the way, they barter a stay at the rural shack of a cantankerous recluse, Mikhail (Vladimir Kucherenko), but the father is shot in a drunken argument. He stays on with a tender nurse (Agrippina Steklova), and the son heads off by himself.