In the organizer's words:

On 20.12.25 you can experience the dark drama about the descent of a young public prosecutor into the clutches of a powerful apparatus of power on the big screen in the presence of director Sergei Loznitsa.

Soviet Union, 1937

Thousands of letters from prisoners falsely accused by the regime are burned in a prison cell. Against all odds, one of them reaches its destination, the desk of the newly appointed local prosecutor Alexander Korniev.

Korniev does everything in his power to meet the prisoner, a victim of agents of the NKVD secret police. The young prosecutor, a committed Bolshevik with integrity, suspects foul play. His quest for justice leads him to the office of the Prosecutor General in Moscow. In the age of the great Stalinist purges, this is the fall of a man into the corridors of a totalitarian regime that does not bear that name.