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During their conversations, flashbacks are shown of their adolescence in Nana's garden. In the present, the two share a kiss before being interrupted by Nana's daughter returning home. The film ends with the recreation of a sci-fi film that the younger versions of Nana and Irina watched in Nana's garden.
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was also shown at the
Tbilisi International Film Festival in December 2019; its premiere received some press attention after the anti-gay group For a United and Moral Georgia picketed the film, in addition to the also-LGBT themed
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Nana is preparing for the arrival of her son Giorgi and his family when her childhood friend Irina, with whom she had a secret love affair as a teenager, stops by her home in the countryside outside
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awarded the film three stars, describing it as a "strangely affecting drama" and an "interesting experiment in the alternative reality that is love". Madeline Wall, writing in
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in 2018, with post-production being completed the following year.
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