• 7 months ago
Storyline: Russia, in the late autumn and early winter of 1917, during the events of the October Revolution and the beginning of the Civil War, a young doctor named Mikhail Polyakov arrives at a small hospital in a remote village in Yaroslavl governorate. Just graduated from medical school, with little experience, he is the only doctor in the rural district. He works hard, earning the respect of his small staff. After an allergic reaction to a diphtheria vaccination, he asks his nurse Anna to give him morphine to reverse the effects. Little by little he slips into addiction.

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