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Autumn of the year 2008, Ida Kos, a 27-year-old migrant from Poland, finds herself admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Prague after experiencing a mental health crisis. The head doctor of the institution, Fyodor Dostoevsky, who happens to be an immigrant himself, begins regular sessions with the new patient, aiming to untangle the messy strands of past and present.
As their meetings progress, they both unravel in more ways than one, seeing each other and themselves as if through the looking glass. Discussions of trauma, grief, religion, and identity become more personal than both Ida and Fyodor expected. Affection grows, probable depths are explored, new windows open. Both the patient and the Doctor confront the lonely holes that hold their entire beings, realizing there's more than just staring out into the shifting darkness.
Even though Ida had made peace with the upcoming winter being empty and never-ending, with time, she began to hope for the embrace of spring. And though Doctor Dostoevsky is accustomed to the presence of cold and silence, he starts hoping for the new, turbulent, and empathetic presence to fill that quiet space with the strange kind of love he's never known before.