Dasha. She’s sitting on a bench, earbuds in, scrolling through her phone. She wears a massive grey coat—more function than fashion—but underneath it, he knows there’s a bright red scarf he gave her last month. She hasn’t taken it off.
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The turning point happens at a dacha —a small wooden summer house outside Moscow, buried in snow. A group of classmates are there for a long weekend. Parents are inside drinking tea and playing dominoes. The teens are in the unheated attic, wrapped in wool blankets, a single bulb swinging overhead. Dasha. She’s sitting on a bench