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A writer lost in life wanders through the city outskirts. A coincidence, or maybe not quite, leads him to a backwater regional movie theater, which in the current era of shopping and entertainment centers has become a rare relic. Gasoline is running out, it's raining outside, and a truck has blocked the road - with nothing better to do, the main character decides to stay for a show showing different fragments of his life. Further throwing back and forth and various random fellow travelers alternate half with the general surrealism of what is happening.

It can be assumed that such a peculiar message gives a chance to rethink your life and, perhaps, correct some aspects of the days long gone, but the film does not give a clear answer to this question, as in its quasi-philosophical research it turns out to be at a distance from well-known examples of a similar plan, like the same "Stalker" (1979). On the other hand, given the year of release and the time associated with them, it would be somewhat naive to expect anything other than an emphasis on the thorns of concrete surroundings. Interesting in its own way, but nothing more.

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.