An unusual text by teenager Anton aroused the filmmaker's interest. Anton is not what you would call normal. He shies away from contact with other people, he walks around a lot and aimlessly, writes, or rather scribbles, his articulation is awkward, his behavior sometimes erratic. Anton is considered autistic. He lives with his mother Rinata in St. Petersburg. When Rinata is diagnosed with cancer, she begins to worry about her son's survival after her death, because what options does Russian society have for a person like him?
In her debut film Anton's Right Here, film publicist, editor and lecturer Lyubov Arkus, born in Ukraine in 1960, accompanies Rinata and Anton on their odyssey through institutions of horror and housing projects of hope. In other words, she doesn't actually accompany them, she helps steer the venture and intervenes. This is because the boundary created by the recording apparatus between the observed object and the observing subject quickly becomes obsolete in Anton's case. He has no concept of documentary distance, and Arkus can soon no longer take refuge in neutrality in the face of Anton's growing affection. So two people meet, and a camera watches and shows how one helps the other.
