The synopsis of this new Russian movie playing tonight at the San Francisco Film Festival seems to be about how to approach risk with extremely limited resources:

Mitya, a young doctor, lives and practices medicine in the middle of the steppe. Although it appears barren, patients frequently arrive at his home-office – one man’s heart has stopped beating from heavy drinking, another’s cow is dying, a young couple are bleeding to death from stab wounds. A local policeman, the only government authority in this vast region, is also a frequent visitor to the doctor.

The Q&A with director Mikheil Kalatozishvili is available here (spoiler alert – they discuss the film’s end):