A 70-year-old man, a former village mayor, recalls his life: the difficult post-war years, the forced collectivization of the land, the migration of the population. He sacrificed his personal life, trying to do his job conscientiously.

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In an authoritarian police state, a charismatic schemer is fired from his job as a secret-police informant, conjures up his own imaginary spy network and builds up an archive that he turns against his former masters.