Gleb Plaksin, a hero of the French Resistance, a successful
musician and a comfortably off Frenchman
became Russian, Soviet citizen on his own free will:
without registration, without a flat, without a profession
and without money… In 1955, Gleb together
with his father arrives to USSR driving an old car.
Not for a visit, but for stay. And a completely different
life begins. This person went through all circles of
Soviet hell, just for the sake of finding his
Motherland, which he knew only through stories…
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