Vitaly Mansky walks the streets of Riga with Alexander Rodnyansky, formerly one of Russia’s leading film producers. They talk about war, cinema, Russia and Ukraine, emigration, lost meanings, and the people who stayed behind in Russia. Why did so many continue to accept what was happening after 2014? What has become of Russian cinema and the army of talented filmmakers who remained in the country? Why are people in Russia today hiding away and cutting off contact with one another? And how is it possible that humanity can contemplate colonizing Mars while at the same time committing killings on an industrial scale?