Summer among the Even is the time of transmission, the time when children join their parents in the forest, when animals take their place in an environment that has become lush again. Daria and her grand-daughter Vassilina, whom we met in winter, are our guides in this roaming tour through “the visible and the invisible”.

Just as in winter, this is a new world that opens up to us. It’s not just the family that has chosen the forest, but a whole community lives there in isolation, including children and young people who are creating a future for themselves.
Summer, a period of plant explosion and animal profusion, is the perfect time of 'return' - for animals, humans, and all the beings that matter to those who stayed behind and who inhabited the forest during winter.
It’s the time of a massive exodus from cities to the forest. This film tells the story of this return - also that of Natassja and her daughter - and of a different world that is taking shape in the midst of summer in the Kamchatka forest.

THE PRESS in France:
"And a river tuns through it"...such could be the title of this magnificent documentary about a clan of reindeer herders of the Even tribe. Daria, the chief, lives with her family by a stream in Kamchatka, in the far east of Russia, in the heart of the forest." (Etienne Séguier - La Vie, 13 Nov. 2020)