In the childhood town of Tarkovsky, work on the restoration of the postcard church is carried out by previously convicted people, they are no longer hired anywhere. Behind obscene vulgar anecdotes and smoke breaks, the foundation is rather strengthened for the arrival of the comical commission from Moscow. Work is also in full swing on the Volga, cranes and divers are strengthening the dam so that the city does not go under water, like its third, once flooded during the construction of the reservoir, along with its streets and monasteries. At the bottom you can still see the ancient gates, wheels and the remains of the pavement.

The last week before the end of the summer in a tiny town on the Volga, the last week before friends leave until next year - to colleges, earnings, barracks. In Yuryevets, only Slava and her foster grandmother will remain from the company of 17-19-year-olds, although he is not exactly sure who she is. They say that she really is a stranger to him.

Tourists and Orthodox pilgrims throw coins into a well that has no water at all, only a wooden goldfish that grants wishes. They do not know that the well has an owner, whose voice can sometimes be heard from its depths when he comes there to collect money for gas station, along the way scolding the whole country. Either a repulsive man-beast, on whom all the churches of the city were stuffed in the zone, or a boy who has not been able to eat since childhood. The man from the well is looking for an answer to the question why money is needed, lives as greedily as he eats and cannot be left alone. Attention: the film contains obscene language!

Krivoluchye is a district in Tula, but you can’t see a familiar city in this film, this is a reflection, partly mockumentary, about emigration. Andrei and Oksana have not seen each other for almost a year and are temporarily returning to their small town, from which both left. Geographical boundaries and the boundaries between the true and the invented are blurring while the characters are looking for the answer to the question “why leave or why stay”, if you can live like in a movie, directing this reality anywhere in the world.