Mariya Shirokova

Vasiliy Deryaba, an amateur ornithologist from Orel, arrives on a business trip to a small provincial town. Upon his arrival, he learns that the person who invited him had disappeared without a trace the day before.

Alex is creating a databank of dreams, claming he knows how to digitise the dreamimage. It is just a self publicity ploy and Alex is soon woken up to the reality of underprivilege, corruption and state terror by an ex-convict Lubov, with whom Alex has an unlikely love affair.