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A lonely man lives on the outskirts. The neighbors are afraid of him because they know that he is a former criminal investigator. Once a friend comes to him and asks for help in one thing. He promises, but ... at dawn they find the corpse of his friend. The prosecutor’s office opens a case that instructs the young investigator to conduct. But every day the number of suspects decreases - they die ...
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Reflection on the way the Soviet production system turns workers themselves into commodities.
The subjective-personal context is perceived as an objective document of the era, a true testimony of the time when it was created and experienced. The author reflects on events of different historical scale, but equally significant for a person. The film is built on the principle of montage of free associations: from memories of the grandmother and reflections on "the time of our grandmothers" to the image of Vira Kholodnaya as the embodiment of femininity, and then - at a sharp turn - to the problems of inter-ethnic conflicts.