Hytti Nro 6 by Rosa Liksom

A young Finnish student flees Moscow on the Trans-Siberian Railway, sharing a cramped sleeper with a coarse, hard-drinking Russian laborer whose unsettling stories clash with her wary silence. As the train crosses the vast Siberian landscape toward Mongolia, their tense companionship exposes buried traumas and the bleak compromises of late Soviet life, gradually revealing a fragile, unexpected understanding forged amid isolation and motion.