Angelina lives in a big city on the sea cost, where handsome men and beautiful women are strolling the streets with only one purpose: to have fun, flirt and love. But Angelina, being pretty, intelligent, and nice, find...展开s herself lonely.
She is police officer and her job is helping abandoned kids, orphans, and troubled youngsters. One day one of her charges, a little boy, explains Angelina how lonely, dull and useless she is. Those words have been bothering her ever since, and she decides to change herself.. Angelina starts her way through the darkness…
Shown at Kinotavr in the competition program, Tale in the Darkness competed with a number of films (eight films out of twelve) by young directors, all born in the 1970s––as opposed to the Russian entries into the 31st Moscow International Film Festival, which showed three films by veteran directors. Drawing generational lines in a corpus of works is usually a sign of either unique achievements of the young generation (like the on-going success of the Young Romanian Cinema), or a sign of crisis, and even worse—of a bitter struggle for survival in an industry adversely affected by ever-diminishing resources.