A small northern town with a secret military facility nearby. There is an ordinary school, hospital and shop here, but any visitor will feel something strange. A girl named Alice lives in this city. She has problems with her mother and at school, and she also has terrible dreams that predict the future. Alice dreams of running away from home with her only friend. But is it possible to get out of a city that has never let anyone go?
Since early childhood Peter has been obsessed with the world of puppets, but his greater obsession is with a real girl, Lisa. He crafts his perfect woman out of her. But Lisa isn't a docile marionette. She's a living human being and she rebels against her creator. Based on the critically-acclaimed, brilliant and poignant novel by one of the best contemporary Russian writers, Dina Rubina, "Petrushka Syndrome" is a multidimensional metaphor, where a sense of duality pervades everything. People and dolls, life and art, the Creator and the creation depend on one another. And where does one draw the line between them?
A girl with two brothers rides a car in the winter Crimea - it's good to understand with whom she should be and what she should be.
