Some sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess – the match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a recent emigrant from the USSR. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.
After the unexpected death of his mistress, Egor appears as the only possible guardian for her eleven-year-old son Roman. Egor is attached to the boy, but is afraid to lose his wife and two daughters if he tells them the truth about his double life. The boy is about to go into an orphanage. Egor must decide: lose Roman for the sake of his family, or confess to his family and bring home the son of the “other woman”.
Young and talented theater actor has been acting very weird lately. Nobody understands what is going on with him and everyone is ready to turn away from him, but...
