Egor is a 25-year-old vet on a rural farm which doubles as a hunting dog training center using domesticated foxes. Although he is a grown man, deep inside he is a wounded child who finds it easier to get along with animals than with people. In desperate need of a controlled environment after a violent past relationship with his mother, all he wants is to care for the animals and to feel part of the close-knit family he works for. When animal rights activists invade this fragile microcosm, upsetting its delicate balance, Egor's world begins to crumble...
In 2007, Nataliia Meshchaninova directed the documentary Herbarium, winner of first prize at Kinoteatr.DOC. In 2010, with Valeriya Gai Germanika and Ruslan Malikov, she directed the series Skhola (School). The drama Kombinat 'Nadezhda' (The Hope Factory, 2014), her first feature, competed at Rotterdam Festival and was acclaimed by Russian critics as the best debut of the year. In 2015, with the participation of Sergey Sentsov, she directed the series Krasnye braslety (The Red Bracelets). Serdtse Mira (Core of the World) is her second feature film.