The movie is based on Yuri Koval’s stories about the life
in a tiny village on the riverbank and a black cat called
Shatalo. When you divide the world into small parts for
the sake of understanding, when you bring them closer
to your eyes, hold them against the light, use your brains
and then put them all together again they won’t fit.
There doesn’t seem to be any magic, but a fairy tale
emerges…