June 12, 1936. On the last night of his life, Maxim Gorky (his real name was Aleksey Maximovich Gorky) remembers those he loved. He recalls how at the age of 19 he tried to shoot himself in the heart for unrequited love. The film is less a biography of the author than the story of his relationships with women, whose ascendancy over men he understood better than anyone else...
