Ghettos in Warsaw, Lodz, Vilnius, Minsk, Vitebsk, Terezin and Tsarskoe Selo. A universal mechanism for creating a ghetto. Nikolai Svanidze's new film features everything about life and death in the ghetto: music, literature, theater, lectures, language learning, love and hate. The film is based on the memories of survivors, diaries of the deceased, archival materials.