Doctors

Boróka, who works abroad as a cleaning lady, returns after a long time to her home town where she gets caught in her alcoholic father’s web of lies.

Chen came from a family of herbal doctors, who have treated numerous orthopaedics dseases, severe and minor. Chen's house, hardly a big one, have accommodated patients from different ethnic groups and from different villiages near and far. The patients found themselves recovering sooner under the care of Chen than that of doctors from large hospitals, and the charges for their treatment were rather small. Year after year, Dr. Chen dedicated himself to this charitable work... This movie attempts to show the medical conditions in remote rural areas in China as objectively as it can. Dr. Chen, as a thread, links togther the real lives of the locals presented by a group portrait of them. Also, It reveals that the traditional doctor-patient relationship has survived the aggressive modern civilization in this area, so has the culture of helpfulness common to an "aquaintance society".

According to the state program, a young paramedic is sent to the village of Novenke Konstantin Kolpakov. It is hard to work, there are not enough medicines, there is no necessary equipment. However, the young paramedic remains not only to treat people, but also to try to bring life back to the gradually fading village.

By offering him a drink, the doctor gets the bed-ridden patient back on his feet in a snap.

The young man helps the old woman he meets get home. It turns out to be Death. She teaches him the secrets of healing, but makes him promise to abide by the agreement - if he sees her at the feet of a patient, he can treat him, but if she stands at his head, this person is hers. But circumstances are such that the doctor violates the agreement.