The necrorealist science fiction plot involves a team of scientists attempting to cross a human being with a tree, and a special unit dispatched to hunt down the zombie-like mutants created in a previous, failed experiment
The protagonist of The Wooden Room is a director of documentaries, who lives with his wife - who is as stoic as he - in an isolated hut in the woods. The director is obsessed by filming marginal events in life. The closer he can get to these events with his camera, the more he becomes involved with them. In the end he falls victim to them. The film, with no dialogue and hardly any sound, is an experimental meditation on the complex, continually-changing relationship between a film-maker and his subject.
Srubov forma parte de la CHEKA, la policía secreta que Lenin creó después de la revolución Bolchevique y que se encarga de arrestar, interrogar y hacer desaparecer a intelectuales opositores, aristócratas, clérigos y a sus familias. Ejecutados en el sótano del edificio, nadie recordará sus últimas palabras, son solo cuerpos anónimos. Diariamente la misma rutina, el tribunal improvisado, las ejecuciones... cargar los cuerpos en vagones. Srubov es frio, distante, sexualmente disfuncional y odiado por sus antiguos amigos y familia. Mientras intenta razonar sobre la naturaleza de la revolución y el propósito de la CHEKA, va enloqueciendo poco a poco.
