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Vera has built a career and solved every problem but the one that matters — her own loneliness. Potato Gingerbread (2011) is a Russian melodrama you can watch online on iFILM.

She has long given up on a family of her own, until the boy next door, Yegor, is left an orphan. A single woman isn't allowed to adopt him, so Vera strikes a deal — a marriage on paper to Sasha, a good-natured working man who asks no questions. What neither of them planned for is the family that starts to grow out of the arrangement.

Olga Fadeyeva and Pavel Kharlanchuk play it quietly, with none of the usual melodramatic overload — an easy, warm watch for an evening in. Stream Potato Gingerbread (2011) online on iFILM.