Kira Georgievna is a famous sculptor. She has a loving husband, friends, and fans. She seems quite happy. But one day the past breaks into Kira's well-adjusted life: Vadim, her first husband, appears. In '37, he was repressed and spent 20 years in camps.

M., a right wing priest, discovers through three key meetings - with the army, a bourgeois family and a "third-worldist" priest - that your ideology is out of time.