About the title
An observational look at the lives of staff, detainees, and convicts in one of Russia's oldest prisons, Butyrka Prison, where Yemelyan Pugachev, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Sergei Korolev, and many others were once held. The film includes interviews and observations of daily life for inmates in the prison.