Call Me from Afar

Grushas Lidiya FedoseyevaShukshina husband has left her and she is now a single parent to her adolescent son Vitya Vladimir Naumenko Her brother Nikolay Mikhail Ulyanov is determined to hook her up with his friend Vladimir the films codirector Stanislav Lyubshin For Grusha and Vladimir to have privacy to build up their relationship Nikolay decides his nephew Vitya needs to stay out of the way so he urges Vitya to come live with his family for a while However Grushas not so sure about the arrangement Based on a play by Vasiliy Shukshin