Short / Drama

Black Lilac

Slavic landscapes, the second half of the 19th century and a lonely house inhabited by a herbalist and her dear one. Will this relationship persevere the mix of the repulsiveness of the disease and the isolation? What happens when this what separates them begins to unite them? Will the black lilac which the protagonist reaches for be gracious to lovers? Although the medicinal properties of the plant have been known for centuries, in the mythology of Slavs and Germanic people, black lilack was considered a magical plant that mediates between the dead and the living. So what will it bring here - doom or a miracle? What if one has to connect to the other?