In an isolated outpost between Tajikistan and Afghanistan, in the heart of the huge Central Asian continental landmass, Alexander Sokurov filmed during several months the daily lives of a brigade of Russian army border guards Abandoned on the frontiers of a ruined empire, they are left to face an omnipresent yet invisible enemy A poem in five parts, with a pace set by the tensions of battle.
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