Synopsis

This documentary follows its protagonists for nearly a decade, as they try to build a utopian society in the Siberian Taiga. Some of them are followers of a religious community whose leader sees himself as the Son of God. He calls himself Vissarion. Since the 1990s, his followers have been building a settlement, high up on a remote mountain, for the society of the future: The Abode of Dawn. The film features a young German woman who married a short-tempered Russian man she never loved. The teenage girl who leaves the village for the city where she ends up in a severe drug addiction. The older woman who blindly follows Vissarion’s every word. And in an unforgettable scene, we finally meet the man himself