During World War II the Kyiv Film Studio relocates to Ashgabat, which will provide a safe haven for many Soviet filmmakers. This is where, thousands of miles from the front line, one of the most famous war films in the history of cinema will be made.

Based on investigations by independent journalists, the film documents the origins of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s private wealth and subsequent rise to power, demonstrating his ascension to the Russian presidency after an alliance built in the early 1990s between himself, certain friends from Leningrad’s KGB, and mafia groups.

The film is about street art in the Crimea and about artists who choose radically different paths.

The film is based on three events in February 1987: the release of the film "Repentance", an exhibition-competition in the Manege of projects for the Victory Monument on Poklonnaya Gora and the 150th anniversary of the death of Alexander Pushkin.

The film is based on a conversation between two philosophers and a historian, Merab Mamardashvili, Dmitry Seseman and Yuri Geller, which took place 25 years ago in 1986. So much has changed in the world since then, and the thoughts of the film's characters about freedom and slavery, about totalitarianism and democracy remain relevant today.