Leningrad, 1980’ler... Rock’n’roll ve blues müziğin yaygınlaşması, Perestroyka’nın yaklaştığını müjdeliyor; Lou Reed, Led Zeppelin ve David Bowie’nin kaçak plakları elden ele geziyor. Mike ve güzel eşi Natasha, genç müzisyen Viktor ile tanışınca, şüpheyle dolu bir devrin en umutsuz günlerinde müzikle yoğrulmuş bir aşk üçgeni doğuyor.

Alexander and Ivan are sound engineers; a rattling train took them to Transbaikalia. They thought that this would be another expedition, that they would record the necessary surrounding sounds and, having done their job, would return home. Their main goal was to record in the Marble Gorge, a rotting camp hidden deep in the mountains, a fragment of the Gulag. But what they heard and recorded was not at all what they expected. Everything around them that had seemed inanimate, gone, suddenly began to acquire its own voice.

Wavelike

The St. Petersburg printing house of the Academy of Sciences has served the cause of education since 1727. Her presses produced the first editions of Pushkin, Lomonosov, Euler, Derzhavin, Likhachev... She was lucky to survive into our century.