1971, Leningrad. Ölümünden sonra ünlenecek Rus yazar Sergei Dovlatov, günlerini yazılarının yayımlanmasının koşulu olan Yazarlar Sendikası’na üyeliğini kovalayıp ufak yazı işleriyle geçirir. Akşamları ise caz dinlenen partilerde kentteki sanatçı ve yazarlarla bir araya gelir. Under Electric Clouds’un yönetmeni Alexey German Jr., Berlin’de dünya prömiyerini yapan yeni filminde Dovlatov’un hayatından altı günü anlatıyor ve bu hikâye üzerinden dönemin entelektüel çevresi ve onların Brejnev zamanı Sovyetler Birliği’yle ilişkisinin de portresini sunuyor.

Dovlatov

Mother is eighty, Seva - sixty.That's the whole family right there. Seva spent his life looking after his mother. While he was at her beck and call, he barely had any time for himself and ended up childless with no soul to turn to. The inevitable happens - mother dies. Without her life loses its meaning. On top of this he finds out the story about his birth. The unbearable truth turns his life upside-down. Questions keep piling on. How to forgive? How to find humility and the strength to carry on?

Mama — Saint Sebastian

Partos Alekseevich Paramonov (Paramosha) worked in the circus as a clown. His wife died and he began to drink too much. Paramoshi left a porcelain figurine on a golden pedestal from a past life. Once there was a phone call and a woman's voice, invited the old man to speak at the bottom of the city. Paramosha went to a stop and waited a long time for the coveted black Mercedes from the city hall, but the call was just an insidious ploy of friends who wanted to lure Paramosha out of the apartment and take possession of the figurine.