Almost 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union the regalia and strong man rhetoric of the totalitarian era are making a comeback. Could the rise be aided by the remnants of totalitarian servility in our own heads? The director of the film Ivo Briedis and journalist Rita Ruduša, both born in the USSR, are going on a journey to explore the phenomenon of "Soviet Man" and to discover whether a human being of the totalitarian mindset has specific geographical boundaries.
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