A young, promising internet journalist, having taken a bite of bitter Moscow “bread,” returns to his native province and finds temporary shelter at the local newspaper—where his career began. A drunken incident at the workplace with a cantankerous old shark of the pen, a long-time editorial fixture who is insistently “pushed out” into retirement, leads to the inevitable: waking up in the office on the desk, your head buzzing, your mouth as if something has died… But instead of a computer, there’s—somehow—a typewriter and a bust of Lenin, and the calendar reads 1979…