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A writer lost in life wanders through the city's back streets. A random, or maybe not entirely, coincidence of circumstances leads him to a provincial regional cinema, which in the current era of shopping and entertainment centers has now become rather a rare relic. Gasoline is running out, it's raining outside, and then a truck is blocking the passage - with nothing else to do, the main character decides to stay for a session showing different fragments of his life. Further the tossing back and forth and various random fellow travelers are interspersed with the general surrealism of what is happening.

It can be assumed that such a unique message gives a chance to rethink one's life and, perhaps, correct some aspects of days long gone by, but the film does not give a clear answer to this question, just as in its near-philosophical research it is objectively far from well-known examples in this subgenre, like the same "Stalker" (1979). However, given the year of release, it would be at least somewhat naive to expect anything other than a concrete jungle.

This is a film about the society of the divorced men, headed by a poet, who left is family in order to write poems. Very typical Perestroika film with the elements of mystery. All the men drink a lot and speak about their family. The poet is tired of teaching younger people poetry he is missing his daughter who really love her father and wishes him to be with mother. Suddenly the poet goes to the cinema and sees the film about himself and with his own poetry, he becomes mad, he wants to judge the director who made that but that cinema turns out to be not cinema at all. The true story of talented but unlucky people who suffer of madness fighting for their right to live they want. But life dictates its own ways. Happily the film has good ending.