Daughter in the movie is real life daughter of the director Sharunas Bartas.
Movie was screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival.
Fiction or reality. Sharunas Bartas, director and lead actor, is the father of Ina Marija Bartaite, and Yekaterina Golubeva was her mother. Bartas and Yekaterina were married for a few years and only procreated Marija. Unfortunately, Golubeva died in 2011, the cause of her death is unknown, she struggled a lot against depression (curiously, in this film she appears to suffer from that disease). Furthermore, Bartaite died at the scene of a traffic collision on April 7, 2021, at the age of 25.