Yuliya Aug

In 1950 the Soviets try to crush a budding resistance movement in the countryside of Estonia. A girl does not understand why her mother is arrested or why her father is upset when she cheers on the young pioneers as they march.

A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment no. 6 to face the truth about their own yearning for human connection.