The Counted

Fatal cases of the Western Nile Fever are registered in one of the remote Russian areas in Karelia. This disease is quite exotic. The Karelian outbreak is against the existing scientific knowledge. An epidemiological expedition is sent to the location. The group includes two protagonists - VERA and NIKOLAI, who once were romantically involved and, as it turns out in the course of current events, have not yet lost their mutual affection for each other. None of them knows what this unexpected journey turns to be. The Counted (Lapsi) is a story with the elements of paranormal and sci-fi genres intertwined in it, put in the unique geographical, ethnical and social setting of Karelian land that is filled with mystical legends and inexplicable myths survived through history till our time. The team faces the facts that can hardly be explained and are more mysterious than the death itself.