The days of the young Ukrainian poet Otto von F., a student of the Literary Institute in Moscow, are filled with endless drinking parties with friends and unrestrained sexual adventures. Until one Saturday, the usual ‘goat driving’ leads the poet to the dungeons of the Moscow subway, where he witnesses a terrible symposium of the famous dead. From now on, Otto von F. must save not only his own life from the KGB, but also his own train ticket to his native Kyiv.