A subtly moving film about life's reckoning, involving a clash between ideology and life, idea and values. An old writer experiences abandonment by his own, while feeling helpless in saving the life of a successor of his work, adding towards a "Kyrgyz national idea". Ostensibly still celebrated, the writer ends up in a nursing home, his resources sacrificed in tending to his duty to those he once raised, while they fail to live up to their own - resulting in seeing his hope obliterated of both prolonging the life of his ideas and being able to grant a final act of basic humanity. The state, ravaged by corruption, cares little about the fate of the "national idea" and those who carry it, although they insist on having the old man televised from his humble room, an exact replica of Van Gogh's Bedroom, albeit in black and white; while ignorant of the younger writer and his "Father's Will" epos.
The film is shot in black and white, until the final scenes where the writer makes it home in the country. Even his father's yurt seems to have fallen apart due to the relatives' negligence, and colour finally illuminates the writer's final resting place, under the apple trees in his father's garden.
Invisible to others, black and white, remain the glorious landscapes of the homeland, which the old man had contemplated on his "Road to Eden", grieving that "caring only about the material, you don't see miracles".
The father's legacy - an old typewriter, an epic painting, and his few belongings are being sold on the side of a busy road.
The film is shot in black and white, until the final scenes where the writer makes it home in the country. Even his father's yurt seems to have fallen apart due to the relatives' negligence, and colour finally illuminates the writer's final resting place, under the apple trees in his father's garden.
Invisible to others, black and white, remain the glorious landscapes of the homeland, which the old man had contemplated on his "Road to Eden", grieving that "caring only about the material, you don't see miracles".
The father's legacy - an old typewriter, an epic painting, and his few belongings are being sold on the side of a busy road.
