Russia, early 90s. Mariya, the owner of a small video rental store in an abandoned cinema, has her son disappear under strange circumstances. To understand what happened and find her son, Mariya has to cross the path of crime boss Egor Bocharov, make friends with fugitive criminal Dmitriy Shilin, reveal the secret of the ghost living in the cinema and find out how he is connected with the mysterious film number 8.

Two directors are trying to make a movie about the 90s, they are auditioning. But not all actors are ready to share the reality of transcendent extravagance with them. The postmodern universe covers them, and only maximum immersion, immersion to death, pulls them into a new form and into a certain product, but is it a product? Or it's a transition into something new, a dream...