Artist's profile of Taus Makhacheva. The artist is granddaughter to Rasul Gamzatov, a famous Dagestani poet and Soviet Avar poet Gamzat Tsadasa was the artist's great-grandfather. Her family as well as her Russian-Dagestani identity are noted as informing her work. Makhacheva's video art illustrates humanity's deteriorating connection to nature and landscape, and the tension between tradition and progress.