Writer, journalist and screenwriter Michael Idov’s first movie is powerful, set in the USSR in the 1980s. Welcome into the life of Boris Arkadiev. A successful writer at first, he has now become a famous humorist: “The KGB is his biggest fan. Boris performs in the sauna of a general every week”, a friend of the hero’s laments. A scathing satire about decadence that clearly reflects the concerns of Russia’s artists nowadays.