In the film, Shana goes to the city of Koltushi (Leningrad region), where the scientific campus of the Pavlov Institute of Physiology is located. Interacting with people from different communities, she finds herself in an environment where different attainments about the world coexist.

As a hybrid consciousness, a creature without a past, Shana has a perspective that generates a different method of interacting with the reality. Following the hero’s path in Koltushi, she encounters such complex and unanswerable questions as the participation of animals in scientific experiments, the opposition and unity of nature and technology, faith in higher powers, aging and death, the search for happiness.

Each of her interlocutors reveals as a person with artistic thinking, be it a research fellow, a pastor of the Lutheran church from the neighboring Finnish village of Kolbino, an administrator of the Theological Institute, or a Taoist hermit who moved to these places for the sake of Qi energy. Can art connect different worlds, be a universal language that brings us closer to understanding the Other?

The mixing of mythology and documentary blurs the boundaries of realities, which emphasizes the ontological multiplicity of non-intersecting points of view, while Shana, by her existence, invites each of them to abandon their claims to realness and follow the path of metamorphosis.