Two brothers ask their father about his communist years, then their mother, and sister. They also meet the actress Marina Vlady and Jacques Rossi, the author of "The Gulag Handbook". Illusions and disillusions through the told and the untold of ordinary conversations where it may appear that human lives differ from history.
In an abandoned theater, French actress Marina Vlady recites from Borges' "The Immortal"... Japanese research scientist Shin Kubota sings praises to the "immortal jellyfish"... Milan Duomo workers subject the cathedral's exquisite statues to perpetual regeneration... Swiss musician/inventors Felix Rohner and Sabina Schrer persistently refine their percussion instrument, the Ha...
На балу молодому князю Руневскому приглянулась Даша, племянница помещиков Сугробиных. Будучи приглашенным к ним в имение, Руневский не догадывался, что все родственники Даши — вампиры.