Trail Baltic

A documentary about a woman's journey along the future route corridor of the Rail Baltic railway. While trying to broadcast live from the 213km long route, the artist Hanna Samoson meets people on her way whose lives will be inextricably linked with the future railway. Through hopes, humour and the pain of loss, "Trail Baltic" shows how people affected by the huge project feel. The film's backdrop is an unbroken landscape that, but all indications, is destined to change soon. Our story could also be told about the Nursipalu military training ground, the pulp mill by Emajõgi or the nuclear power plant, because in all these examples big technological ideal collides with the desire to preserve something that is extremely important to some of us. This is not a traditional documentary, it is a road movie through bushes, ditches, bogs and groves. It is a film where encounters with people are random, direct, and honest. A film that is neither for or against Rail Baltic, but that shows the plurality of opinions, the process of coping with changes, and captures life and landscapes in one vanishing moment in time.