The graduation ball in the village of Zazimye was meant to mark the beginning of a new life for Pavel and Nadya, but it turns into a bloody tragedy. First love and innocent dreams collapse in an instant when betrayal and violence intervene. A single swing of an axe transforms yesterday's schoolboy into a murderer, and his fiancée into a victim who has lost the will to live. As Pavel hides in the depths of the forest and a young agronomist, Valery, is accused of complicity, the characters must confront how thin the line is between truth and falsehood-and how high the price of a single mistake can be in a world where fate grants only one ticket to the "carousel of life."
