How Big Is the Galaxy

The Zharkov familyfather mother and two young sonsbelong to the Dolgan community one of the last indigenous peoples pursuing their traditional nomadic life in the extreme north of Siberia The children used to be sent to boarding school where they became estranged from their family and culture but nowadays they can get homeschooling from teachers assigned to them by the Russian authorities Sevenyearold Zakhar and his older brother Prokopy are the protagonists in this calm observational film Zakhars first year of schooling is with Nelly a young but serious teacher She tells him about President Putin and the importance of mathematics and he learns classical poems by heart