Beka Lemondzhava

In the regional centre Kuznetsky the mayor has been killed in his office. The murderer is Dimur Kavsadze, in charge of commercial construction work for the city administration. A squall of public concern beleaguers the city. Alexander Danilin is an undercover curator, an intermediary between the business and the authorities; he tries to eliminate trouble and return life to normal. The cause of the tragedy was a construction project, which wrapped itself around Kuznetsky like a tumour, and which was a source of profit for the authorities and the local builders. The construction “devours” free land, the souls of people and even what seems beyond the law of profit: the family. Neither the death of people, nor common sense can stop the construction…

Republic of Georgia, 2016: in a small town of Gori, the birthplace of Stalin, his followers gather to commemorate him on the 63rd anniversary of his death when strange things begin to occur.

1983年、当時はまだソビエト連邦を構成する共和国の一つで、国外への渡航の自由など許されていなかったグルジア。裕福な家庭に生まれ育ち、ビートルズのレコードなどを通じて西側世界の文化に触れた青年のニカは、まだ見ぬ西側諸国に強烈な憧れを抱くように。かくして彼は、恋人のアンナや友人たちと新婚旅行の団体客を装って飛行機に乗り込み、上空で飛行機をハイジャックすると、そのまま国外へ渡航しようと試みる。