The writer Andrei Platonov gave his youth to the glorification of the revolution and the construction of communism, he twice went to the front as a war correspondent, lost his son in repression. The fate and time of Platonov seemed to echo the harsh phantasmagoria of his great works The Pit and Chevengur . So, in the film by Roman Liberov, the biography of Platonov is mixed with cinematic fantasies based on his works, the dream of a bright future turned into a totalitarian reality, and the Soviet songs intertwined with the voice of the leader of Shortparis , Alexandra Kutman and Civil Defense Songs: It's the Story of the Creation and Death of a New World in Seven Days.