Marat knows that he is ill for a long time. But when doctors suggest taking more tests in order to determine how long he has left, he starts to panic. While waiting for the results he starts to experience life in the totally different way - the distinction between his past, present and dream states collide and he can't really understand what is going on. While trying to grasp the reality through the conversations with his college friends, he starts to reminisce all his traveling through Russia in hopes of better understanding of this land and himself. But he has the certain feeling - that he actually does not have much time. And in becomes too obvious that the country around him goes through the same stages as he does. He realizes that his life is interconnected with hopes, dreams and nightmares of this land and the country will seize to exist at the same moment as he will. He will personally experience - in his own twisted state of reality - all the issues, troubles, ghosts, words, meanings and codes of this wast country that grasps to stay alive when it actually already in its last days.
