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A man is caught between love and violence in a small Russian town in this willfully eccentric drama from director Svetlana Proskurina. Egor (Ivan Dobronravov) is a young man who makes his living as a truck driver, living in a shabby apartment block with his fellow drivers. Life is full of small, unpleasant crises for Egor, and on his next long haul, he makes a stop in the village where he was born and raised. Egor would like to meet a nice woman and settle down, and decides his hometown might be the best place to find her Egor ends up running errands for his possibly criminal uncle (Yuri Itskov), and hanging out with friends who are struggling to write the great Russian novel or get missing fingers reattached. However, life is the village is played out against a backdrop of bitter conflict, as the miners who work the nearby mines are locked in a small-scale war with the villagers. Amidst the fighting, Egor meets a lovely girl named Katya (Nadezhda Tolubeeva) who is studying music; he finds himself falling for her, but discovers she's only willing to go out with him on Sunday, which is the day of the week that both sides take a break from the fighting. Peremiriye (aka Truce) was a prizewinner at the 2010 Sochi Open Russian Film Festival and was an official entry at the 2010 BFI London Film Festival.