Georgian society has been living with ready-made schemes tested and verified by generations for a long time; the schemes precisely determined how you should look at what age, what you should be interested in, what you should strive for and what duties you should have. These unwritten scheme-laws are especially ruthless towards women, whose life path is strictly determined by age. Almost every unmarried woman over 30 is familiar ...
"Hello, ma'am, do you have any vacancies?" - a voice is heard from behind the shot, still in the background of the black screen and credits - this is how the director Keko Chelidze begins to introduce the main character of her film, “Dead Souls' Vacation” (2020) to the audience. Somewhere in the fourth minute, the music starts, and the hero himself is clearly visible - a small, thin man standing at the crossroads, holding a big guitar, to which the sounding melody belongs. He introduces himself like this: "I'm Levan, Svanidze, a musician, 44 years old, I live with my mother, which should not be surprising, somewhere at the end of the Didi Dighomi district, and I'm trying…well, to make something happen..."