In an old Soviet music hall, an orchestra is recording a composition based on Pushkin's "Feast During the Plague". An invisible and frightening force is interfering with the musicians - whether it is the spirits of the past or the echo of war, but no one notices what is happening around them until the terrible end comes.
An expelled journalism student, trying to make sense of his life, carefully documents his summer, as well as the story of the disappearance and death of the founders of one of the first startups on the Russian Internet.