“Kartli” refers both to Georgia’s medieval kingdom and a Tbilisi sanatorium sheltering refugees from the 1990s war in Abkhazia, a place meant to be temporary that has now lasted thirty years. The crumbling building has become a recreated “country”, with a farm, gardens, terraces and rooms where old VHS tapes revive memories of a lost paradise. Through Tamuna, Irma and others, the film explores exile, trauma and shared resilience, showing that nothing stays the same inside Kartli.