Travelling with Pets (2007)

Description:
Freed from her loveless marriage by the death of her brutal and much-older spouse, a thirty-five year old woman who was married directly out of the orphanage embarks on a unique journey of self discovery in this drama from director Vera Storozheva. Natalya was just sixteen when a narrow-minded tyrant from the countryside arrived at the orphanage and claimed her as his wife, and for the next nineteen years she lived a suffocating life of quiet desperation. Now freed from the habit and prejudice that once dictated her every move, Natalya ventures cautiously into the outside world. Upon making the acquaintance of a kind and handsome trucker named Sergey, the woman who once had no future finally has reason to hope.