Aliona van der Horst

After inheriting part of a small house outside Moscow, director Van der Horst embarks on a journey back into the secrets of her mother's Russian past.

One day, Dutch filmmaker Aliona van der Horst was given her inheritance: six square metres, one sixth of a small, wooden house in the Russian countryside where her mother grew up. She then began a journey into the past, back into the childhood of her Russian mother and her five sisters, all of whom struggled with fear, famine and war in Stalin's Russia, experiences that left them scarred to their very soul.