Sergei Dovlatoy lived in Tallinn for three years, years full of hopes and dissapoitments, ups and downs.

His writings in Tallinn and Leningrad provide the basis for his story "The Compromise". A testimony about the period.

Thirty years later a student reseaches. Who were the heros of the compromises.

Marina, Bush, Zhbankov, Shablinsky, Repetsky, Linda Peips and Trul, Turonok, Tiina Karu, Klensky, Chemov

Filmed during the winter and spring of 2003 in Tallinn, the city where Sergey Dovlatov lived and worked between 1972 - 1974