A Russian guitarist was enlisted in 1984 in the Afghan war. Imprisoned, he will meet an Afghan musician and a French journalist.

The mischievous Carlson and the gullible Kid are the heroes of a well-known fairy tale. Carlson loves to play pranks very much, and for all the consequences of pranks he has a "proprietary" excuse: "It's nothing, it's an everyday thing!".

The war, with its immorality and cruelty, touched the foundations - the "bridges of life" - of a simple Moldovan village...