Zoology

Natasha works at the zoo, spending most of her time in the office with bubbleheaded coworkers. After work, she returns home to her mother and meowing cat, a life that reflects many others in a mid-sized Russian town with zero prospects in sight. All that changes when Natasha discovers she has a tail and her physical morph evokes a change in perspective on life and the people who reject her new persona. As fear spreads in town of a strange being that has a tail and rumors swirl about a witch that abducts innocents, even the local Orthodox Church gets involved. As Natasha attempts to forge a new life in this chaos, and treats her tail as a watershed opportunity, she falls in love with Peter. Zoology is a bitter and at times surreal portrait of an innocent woman with no way out of the ties that bind.