URSS, 1971. Six jours dans la vie de l’auteur Sergei Dovlatov, qui se bat pour écrire avec intégrité malgré l’écrasante censure imposée par le régime soviétique.
Having learned about her terrible illness and unavoidable death, Victoria, decides to leave her five-year old daughter in the case of her father-in-law.
In their first collaboration Melkonian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov film two neighbour families that both claim ownership of a huge mulberry tree growing in the middle of their two houses.