A young woman travels from the edge of the world to a Karelian idyll and meets Santra – an old woman who is the last link to the roots of a woman and Karelian culture.

The film tells the story of the difficulty and beauty of finding a home. What is it like to live in the wind, rootless? What do we lose when traditions die? What are traditions really and what does their death mean?

A young woman travels around the world and is carried away by the wind to White Karelia, Russia, where she meets Santra Remsujeva – an old woman who is the last living link to the ancient and great roots of the young woman and the entire Karelian culture. Santra lives in a small village with her granddaughter Ira and her family. Their life, which is closely connected to nature and peace, is like something out of an old Karelian fairy tale.

As a young woman flees the wind and cities, rootless, lonely and without a past, to this Karelian idyll, she recognizes an inexplicable longing within herself. What is remembering and how does forgetting one’s roots feel to a young woman today?

What is it like to grow up in a world where one cannot lean on the old?

Santra and the Talking Trees is a film about forgetting and remembering oneself and one’s past – about homelessness and home – about loneliness and finding love.