The Nest of the Turtledove

She is a middle-aged Ukrainian migrant worker in Italy. He is an affluent Italian divorcee. And then… there is her impoverished husband and a teenage daughter back home. To make things worse, she gets pregnant by her master. What will she choose? Inequality, class and gender drive this acclaimed new drama to the heights of tension amid moral complications that seem impossible to resolve.

Q&A with the film director Taras Tkachenko and lead actress Rymma Zyubina to follow.

Drama, 101 min.

From the Ukrainian Institute of America.