Com a cidade sofrendo de uma epidemia de gripe, Petrov e sua família lutam por mais um dia em um país onde o passado nunca é passado e o presente é um sonho impetuoso de violência e ternura movido a álcool. Gripado e febril, Petrov é arrastado por seu amigo Igor em uma longa caminhada, em que realidade e fantasia se misturam, nessa narrativa delirante e lacônica pela Rússia pós-soviética. Baseado no romance Petrovs in and Around the Flu, de Alexey Salnikov.
What happened to Ophelia two minutes before death? What did Lady Macbeth do in prison? What if Romeo had a girlfriend before Juliet? What if the heroes of various plays know each other?
A small but powerful orchestra with strict melodies and rhythms in the spirit of “Avia” unleashes a mechanical frenzy: artists under a thick layer of make-up are throwing replicas from Harms' stories and notebooks. Ultimately, this plotless musical by Maxim Didenko with the artists of the Gogol Center claims to incarnate (literally, from the word “flesh”) the universe of a unique writer, the demiurge of a dislocated reality.
This is a story of one summer that ends along with the Youth. A village guy Seryoga looks at the world through a hole made in a poster of Tatyana Bulanova. A girl from a big city Nastya is just about to explore the world. Seryoga, Pashok and Redhead Mashka drag Nastya to the journey of their youth called 'Yof'. It is pretty hard to get out of it, it is impossible to forget it, you will always keep it in your memory like a song from the 90s.
The main characters of the film are residents of different places of this country, most common people, with whom most uncommon things, pure wonders, happen. Semyon and Lyuba, a family of fireguards, have a chance to fulfill a dream – to go to Moscow to take part in their favorite TV show “Field of Miracles” (“Pole Chudes”), where they should make a life choice “trophy or money?” An inexperienced officer of Patrol-Guard Service and at the same time an experienced loser Sanya will have to not only survive his first day of service but also to accept his wife’s labors and to reanimate his partner. Four newly acquainted fellows must by any means fly to Moscow in non-flying weather, and a couple of young lovers must reconcile their irreconcilable parents by some mysterious way. Valera has to decide on a dilemma: to save mankind from the Deluge or just to fly with his karaoke-alien-friends in their old UFO? All these things can happen only once a year – on December, 31!
