Research film in the post-post-memory genre. An attempt to understand the creators and participants, as well as their motivations, of the largest theatrical project of 2017, “Motherland,” in the historical context that was originally set by the artists. How does Joseph Stalin resonate in each of us, what processes does he trigger in us? How one of the most tyrannical figures of the 20th century still influences and controls our consciousness and manifests itself directly or indirectly in our life attitudes, in our worldview, in work, in relationships with people, and a painful deformation of the psyche continues, which can only be defeated through collective rethinking , free expression of a statement on stage and its subsequent experience inside.