The Highway

A slow, somber plunge into a small-town crime and the buried wounds it uncovers, demanding patience and rewarding it with quiet dread.

Created by

Dushan Gligorov

Genres

Drama

Starring

Karina Razumovskaya, Aleksandr Ilyin Jr, Anna Mikhalkova

Overview

Svetlana sets out to find her adopted daughter, who left to find her real parents and disappeared. At the same time in this resort town, a thirteen-year-old girl shoots her sleeping family, after which she tries to hang herself. A neighbor comes running to the gunshots and pulls the girl out of the noose. The head of the police of the district entrusts the investigation of the high-profile case to investigator Elvira Barayeva. But how are Svetlana, a St. Petersburg judge with a dark past, and her adopted daughter Kira connected to this case and this place?

How it feels

Dark, tense, melancholic and eerie. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Family, isolation, trauma, mystery

Content

Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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