The life of a simple cockroach is not easy. Not only are people poisoning him at every turn, he still has to exist without a TV. And our hero has a dream - TV. Unrealizable, but a dream. And yet one morning he believed that dreams come true, because he found a whole penny. We see several episodes from his life in the barn, a trip to a restaurant that is located in the floor of a real restaurant for cockroaches, getting only the TV console instead of the TV itself.
It follows political events in Russia at the beginning of the century, during the birth of the Social Democratic Party, among the first fighters of which was Vera Protasova, the daughter of a lawyer who defended Narodnaya Volya members in court.
A dying woman’s wish sends her son on a train journey from the steppes of Uzbekistan to the Russian hinterland in search of his father’s grave. Just as the traveler’s home city of Samarkand is situated on the border between East and West, Khamraev balances his film on the edge of two cultures, evoking the soul of Russia and the crumbling beauty of what was once the Silk Road.
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