A touching story of an unexpected encounter in the depths of the taiga between a traveling painter and a cute shrew White Tooth, about the contact between two worlds: the enormous world of man and the tiny world of shrews. Despite the difficulties in understanding each other, the heroes of the film find the strength to bring something new to each other. This is a film about trust, about the place of man in nature, about the desire to protect it. The film was shot based on a short story by Russian writer Yuri Koval.
