The author's interpretation of the story by F. M. Dostoevsky "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man" using motifs from the stories by T. Mann "The Clown" and Leo Tolstoy "Notes of a Madman".

Based on Mykola Khvylovyi’s novel I Am (Romance). The protagonist of this unsettling film, a man with the strange surname Hlavkoverkh, is obsessed with a romantic ideal of freedom, for which he does not stop even at the execution of his own mother.