AGAINST NIGHT Presentations

The late 1960s, heyday of the Soviet space program. A Soyuz capsule carrying two cosmonauts violently reenters the atmosphere, burning up. Miraculously, both men survive, landing far off-course in the remote frozen steppes of Mongolia. With no way to call for help, one of the men — Vitali — sets off, in the midst of a violent snowstorm, to search for rescue. On the verge of freezing to death, he finds a yurt in the wilderness and seeks shelter inside, where he meets a ragged Mongolian shaman. As the night unfolds like a fever dream, he is forced to finally confront the tragic loss of his wife and young daughter, who appear first in his memories, and then, impossibly, in the flesh. Teetering on the verge of life and death, Vitali will face a choice: letting go of the past, or drowning in it…