Having learned that the empty monastery is facing a thorough reconstruction, the architect decides to capture it alone and prepare design documentation for the restoration of this monument of history and culture. But the monastery turns out to be far from empty. Besides him, a strange old woman...
The film’s action takes place in November 1982, on the day of L.I. Brezhnev’s death. Ivan Chashkin, a worker from a Siberian village, is rushing to his mother’s funeral in the Moscow region. The leader’s funeral creates numerous obstacles on the way of the film’s hero…
