ABSTRACT
During her travels in Eastern Europe in the early 1990s, the Finnish documentary filmmaker Pirjo Honkasalo came across a monastery located in the village of Vasknarva on the Narva River in Northeastern Estonia. After some time, Honkasalo returned to the village with the idea of making a film about Father Vassily, the Orthodox priest at the monastery. Upon her return, she encountered Tanyusha, a 12-year-old girl who had not left the premises of the church for six months.
