Russian iconoclast Oleg Kovalov’s absurdist indictment of totalitarianism mixes live action, cartoons and archival footage from pre-Perestroika Russia and the Third Reich to tell the story of eccentric St. Petersburg poet Daniil Kharms. Kharms was a misunderstood Futurist who wanted to fashion his life into a work of art but instead was tossed into the gulag for distracting his comrades from their industrial duties and the Proletarian ideal. Direcor Kovalov (best known in the West for his documentary Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography) uses a playful touch and striking, sometimes bizarre set pieces to tell his tale. In the process he leaves the viewer with many exquisite images (like an enigmatic, stockinged woman dressed in a man’s hat, suit coat and glasses astride a stylized camera dolly) to add to his or her mental scrapbook. 　　Kovalov's first feature is a paranoid grotesque picture of the totalitarian Soviet past, based on the life and work of Daniil Kharms. Motifs from the life and work of Absurdist writer Daniil Kharms inspired Kovalov to create a paranoid and grotesque picture of the totalitarian past. In a Leningrad communal house in 1939 hangs the scent of a suppressed sexuality that obsesses all the characters: from the weak and shy Poet to the Judge who tries on the mask of Helmut Berger from Visconti's The Damned. The hallucinogenic images that result can only have one result: massive aggression, an armada of bombers, armed crowds that fling themselves into the struggle with the fury of spermatozoids. The film is full of newsreel footage from the time of Stalinism and the Third Reich that are cut very ingeniously through the feature fragments. With a typical mixture of aversion and affection, irony and amazement, Kovalov manages to evoke the insanity of this period.

袁喆（吴佩慈饰）一直暗恋着弟弟袁浩（彭于晏饰）的家庭教师冯尚宁（李威饰），然而，令姐弟两人感到震惊的是，他们发现身为一家之母的周崇兰（陈谊饰）竟然也对冯尚宁情有独钟，袁浩又急又气索性离家出走，之后遇见了名为高苓（刘品言饰）的美丽女孩，一段错综复杂的情缘就此展开。多年之后，袁喆已经成为了一名男孩的母亲，在和丈夫左亚夫（陈宇凡饰）分手之后，她回到了久违的故乡，重新见到了曾经的初恋情人冯尚宁，可是，时光的匆匆流逝让珍贵的重逢充满了物是人非的伤感，袁喆会怎样面对自己的感情呢？与此同时，冯尚宁亦站在人生的十字路口前，爱情尚未尘埃落定，他和弟弟冯尚羽（东明相饰）之间的亲情亦需要关注与修复。