DESCRIPTION OF THE FILM:

"Track" is a film offering a unique possibility to see the mode of life of the twenty-first century Poleshuks* in the middle of picturesque bogs of North Polissia. For the vast majority of locals the European longest still in operation 106 kilometers narrow-gauge railway is most likely the only mode of transport. It lost their commercial value long time ago and incurring losses however no alternative reliable modes of transportation within Polissian forests established.

A well-paced life of Poleshuks is being speed up by the locomotive whistle same as disturbed bog surface is stretched out towards a train. The railway has become part of traditional life. Pentecostals get baptized near the longest wooden railway bridge in Europe. Healers live beside the track. Wounds left by amber hunters are being soon cured by the power of nature. Railway here is a starting point for everyday activities such as going shopping, meeting family and friends or visiting a bank or hospital.

* the name given to the people who populate the swamps of Polissia