Lera is a sociology student at a small-town university. Her mother is a sleepwalker who believes in miracles, and her father just left the family for another woman. Lera has no idea how to make her life better. And one more thing: a spirit keeps visiting her dreams at night. And the harder Lera's life gets, the more often she has these dreams. That is, until the spirit steps in...反映苏联解体后老中青三代俄罗斯人的生存现状。老年俄人全安排成社会调查对象,从形式上成为当今俄社会被边缘化的客体,思想僵化言不由衷,仍活在激情与恐惧并存的苏联时代没能走出来,有着早逝却难忘的理想,及相应的失落。中年俄人是莱拉父母一辈,精神分裂严重,母亲自开篇在野外小解后灵魂再也没回归,以抛下一切的反向狂奔试图穿越“俄罗斯的森林”实现精神自由。而父亲是警察,因妻精神失常而长期挣扎于爱与暴力、冲动与理智之间。青年一代就是莱拉及周边,其双重身份从形式到内涵超越前辈成为精神分裂最严重的一代。除家中场景,莱拉一律是恍惚的游离的,而正是“家长期折磨着她,她最终摆脱枷锁,如她母亲曾描述的以及儿时照片上所呈现的那样,长出一对隐性翅膀,疾步出走,在她身后是影片最后一幕:家所在社区中央,一片“俄罗斯的森林”被伐倒