Sashenka

In the night someone shoots an elderly couple in their sleep with a hunting rifle leaving their twentyyearold son disabled and confined to a wheelchair an orphan The investigation reveals the life story of what seems at first glance to be an ordinary Soviet family While still young the couple lost their longdesired infant daughter Later in life the fate gives them a child but he happens to be a boy The mothers pathological desire to have a daughter becomes an obsession The woman treats Sashenka as a girl dresses him as a girl and buys him dolls The father supports his wife in every way This is how starts a dramatic and astonishing story of human vices and deviations