A un actor muy inseguro (Paul Giamatti), su papel en la obra teatral "El tío Vania" de Chejov le produce una enorme ansiedad. Cuando, en un estado de bloqueo total, lee un artículo del New Yorker en el que una empresa de alta tecnología ofrece aliviar los sufrimientos por medio de la congelación del alma, Paul decide someterse a la prueba.
With the money of the bandits, the director made a film that received prizes at four festivals, but did not raise money. The bandits filed a complaint and forced to shoot porn on video. Theme - Russian master whips and dishonors girls in the hayloft. For the role of the master, the debtor was sent with fresh traces of the iron on the back. Didn't fit. They found the Honored Artist of the Buryat Opera House, who had lost in billiards, and two truck drivers. All of them were debtors of the lads, each has its own story...
Upset after a failed audition actor "vote a ride" driven by a pretty young woman. Suddenly they become hostages of the bandits seeking to get out of the city with the cargo received at the airport…
At the end of September 1941, Soviet artillery troops in besieged Leningrad realize that pretty soon they will fire their last shot, and after that the defense of the city will be doomed. The film is based on a true event: a small group of fearless soldiers transported a large supply of gunpowder through enemy lines to Leningrad.
