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Summoned by a note written in blood and smuggled out of a prison block, an idealistic young Soviet prosecutor pushes past wary jail authorities to interview an elderly, broken-down Bolshevik condemned as a political undesirable. Determined to expose the miscarriage of justice to Moscow, he finds his investigation steadily encircled by suspicion. Set at the height of Stalin's Great Purge, the film is a Kafkaesque portrait of the impunity of power and the everyday horrors of totalitarianism.