Alice qualifie le travail de sa mère de propagande, mais Janna estime qu'elle travaille pour le bien de son pays natal. Pendant quatre étés et un hiver, mère et fille parcourent la Russie de Poutine dans tous les sens. Au fil de leur voyage, Janna est confrontée à son passé, à ses secrets et à son identité de journaliste et de mère, tandis que le pays se rapproche de la guerre.

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On the eve of the war in Ukraine, a Russian journalist from pro-Kremlin TV channel brings her rebellious and Westernised teenage daughter on a journey through Putin’s Russia.

A sincere and captivating personal story of a Russian journalist, a familiar face on Russian state television, going through a complex journey of self-discovery and transformation – both as a journalist and as a mother – set against the backdrop of Putin’s Russia. At its heart, a burning question: How did I allow lies, hatred, and propaganda to become the norm?

Alice calls her mother’s work propaganda, but Zhanna believes that she is working for the good of her homeland. As a foreign correspondent for Russian TV she covers the major events in the Western countries from the Kremlin’s perspective and she wants to make Alice more Russian. But the girl doesn’t care about her cultural identity. She is half Russian and half Italian. She goes to French school and the family currently lives in New York. Alice doesn’t consider any country as her homeland. It is something Zhanna can’t grasp. She believes everyone should have a land to love. So Zhanna decides to show Alice the biggest country in the world. Her Motherland. Over four summers and one winter, mother and daughter travel across the length and breadth of Putin’s Russia. But as their journey unfolds, Zhanna grapples with her past, her secrets, and her identity as both a journalist and a mother—while the country edges closer to a war.