Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called doctors' plot.

这是一部另类的科幻电影，像片头的旁白的那样，这里不是地球，而是某个类似地球的星球，那里的文明进化到了类似于地球上的欧洲中世纪。故事改编自 Strugatsky兄弟的小说，这个科幻的创意就是如果当年没有文艺复兴，现在的欧洲文明又会是…