After a ten year long stay in West Germany, Max returns to the Soviet Union to visit his deadly ill father in Leningrad. There he finds a friend in a man who calls himself Igor and he begins a love-affair with the deafmute Lena. Around Max' relationship to his father, Igor and Lena, losely held episodes give a many fasetted portrait of Leningrad and its inhabitants. In the eyes of the returning Max, the city is at once well-known and foreign. Lyrically saturated images and sophisticated editing contributes to making the film an expressive description of a changing city.
| Directing | Oleg Morozov | Director |
| Directing | Andreas Christoph Schmidt | Director |
| Writing | Andreas Christoph Schmidt | Writer |
| Writing | Oleg Morozov | Writer |
| Camera | Oleg Morozov | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Renata Litvinova | Writer |
| Production | Alexandr Golutva | Producer |
| Production | Martin Hagemann | Producer |
| Art | Natalya Kochergina | Production Design |