Summa

A young Belarusian artist leaves her husband behind in Minsk to visit her friend the elderly painter Andrzej Strumillo in his idyllic manor house in Poland Its a fairytale place surrounded by marshland and a river There are horses for which the two artists share a passion as well as dogs It has been two years since her last visit For her the trip offers a welcome diversion from city life for him its a break from a lonely existence marked by old age a curved spine painful knees Its sad lifes so short he says