After a ten year long stay in West Germany, Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad. There he finds a friend in a man who calls himself Igor and he begins a love-affair with the deafmute Lena. Around Max' relationship to his father, Igor and Lena, losely held episodes give a many fasetted portrait of Leningrad and its inhabitants. In the eyes of the returning Max, the city is at once well-known and foreign. Lyrically saturated images and sophisticated editing contributes to making the film an expressive description of a changing city.
as Max
as Igor
as Lena
as Natasha
as Erika
as Nikita
as Max's Dad
as Igor's Friend
as Slava
as Boy
as Jazz Musician
as German Man
as Sasha
as Nina
