The day after his funeral, the corpse of Varlam Aravidze, the mayor of a small Georgian town, turns up in his son’s garden. Although it is secretly reburied, the corpse…

Follows Georgian ex-wrestler’s journey to Brooklyn, New York. His aim is to get his son out of a gambling debt. He meets people who help him and people who ignore…

The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today’s Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a…