خلاصه داستان : دروبوف بخشی از CHEKA است، پلیس مخفی لنین که پس از انقلاب بلشویکی تأسیس کرد. دستگیر می کنند، یک دقیقه مصاحبه می کنند، در ده ثانیه تلاش می کنند و روشنفکران را اعدام می کنند،...

Srubov is a part of CHEKA, the secret police Lenin established after the Bolshevik Revolution. They arrest, interview for a minute, try in ten seconds, and execute intellectuals, aristocrats, Jews, clergy, and their families. In the building basement, five people at a time are shot as they stand naked facing wooden doors. No one to remember their last words; no martyrs, just anonymous bodies. Daily, the kangaroo court, the executions, the loading of bodies onto wagons. Srubov is cold, distant, sexually dysfunctional, and a deep thinker, hated by former friends and his family. As he tries to reason the nature of revolution and the purpose of CHEKA, he slowly goes mad.

خلاصه داستان : یک زن جوان به وسیله یک افسر پلیس دیوانه و روانی گروگان گرفته شده است....

While returning to Leningrad from a visit to his brother, Professor Artyom's car breaks down and he finds assistance at an isolated farmhouse occupied by Alexey, his wife, a Vietnamese laborer, and a stranger who wanders around the farm. When his car is repaired, Artyom leaves, drunk on moonshine, and students Valera and Angelika arrive. After Valera gets drunk, the stranger abducts Angelika.