Heart's Memory (Season 1)

Heart's Memory (Pamyat Serdtsa, 2014) is a Russian family melodrama you can watch online on iFILM. It opens on a fire that wipes out everything seventeen-year-old Sasha has: in a single night her parents and her two-year-old sister Dasha die in their own home.

Sasha was away that evening, which is the only reason she survives. Soon a darker shape emerges behind the tragedy — gangsters had been pressuring her father to hand over his thriving business for next to nothing. Was a deal really worth burning a whole family alive? And why were little Dasha's remains never found in the ashes? That question is what keeps Sasha moving. With no home, no money and no relatives left, she leaves her hometown of Nizhnedonsk to piece together what truly happened that night.

The cast is led by Elena Radevich, Ivan Zhvakin and Vladimir Zherebtsov. This is a family drama wrapped around a quiet mystery: it runs on slow excavation of an old wound and the faint hope that the sister might still be alive, not on action. Stream Heart's Memory (2014) online on iFILM.