A man is drugged and desiccates

A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.

An obese lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old Romani man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the old man to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate lawyer as he draws closer to his own death, and grows ever thinner.

The film is dedicated to the fate of children evacuated from besieged Leningrad. Orphanages were created at the expense of collective farms, in which hundreds of orphaned children were brought up. Not a single film has been made about how children lived in these institutions. There are fewer and fewer eyewitnesses of those events, only from them you can learn the truth.