About the title
Moscow, the 1930s. A famous writer at the peak of his career suddenly finds himself at the center of a literary scandal. The play based on his work is pulled from the repertoire, colleagues pointedly avoid him, and within days he becomes an outcast. Soon after, he meets Margarita, who becomes his beloved and muse. Inspired by her love and support, the writer sets to work on a new novel in which the characters are people from his circle, and the protagonist is the enigmatic Woland, modeled on a foreigner he recently met. The writer becomes completely absorbed in the world of his novel and gradually stops noticing how fiction and reality intertwine into one. Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Bulgakov.