The film was filmed during the 2013 Amur flood. Postman Nadia delivers mail to villagers in distress. The peculiarities of the relationship between people living in the outback, far from the city and the center of the country, are manifested in the struggle against the elements.
When Matthew explores the 'spiral' in his grandmother's garden (a strange structure built by his late grandfather) he discovers an entrance into the magical world of 'the Shadows' where he meets his new Shadow friends, Yorrick and Alice, and begins his great adventure.
A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin.