Susa smuggles Vodka. First he fetches a few bottles from the illegal distillery, then distributes them to customers in the town. Things will return to normal once his father comes home, his mother says. But when the big day arrives, Susa has to think again. Rusudan Pirveli’s melancholy portrait of a boy shows a bleak side of Georgia, softened by a faint glimmer of hope which is tentative, at most.
Susa smuggles Vodka. First he fetches a few bottles from the illegal distillery, then distributes them to customers in the town. Things will return to normal once his father comes home, his mother says. But when the big day arrives, Susa has to think again. Rusudan Pirveli’s melancholy portrait of a boy shows a bleak side of Georgia, softened by a faint glimmer of hope which is tentative, at most.