European journalist visits Russia for the fist time. By chance he picks up a phone call at his fellow journalist Moscow office and this call sharply and irrevocably changes his life. He travels to a strange and ghostly provincial Russian town which seems to be real but couldn't be found on any road map. He meets there his dreams and fantasies, his love and his final day. By taking the identity of his friend he enters the ultimate adventure of living somebody Else's life and experiencing somebody Else's fate. But a price for that is his own life.

David Michaels, a troubled New York poet finds inspiration and heartbreak in the enigmatic, institutionalized Poet Regina Romanescu. As their bond deepens, David must confront the darkness of Regina's past and oppressive forces that seem to keep them apart. Will their light shine bright enough to overcome the shadows or will it become a tragic victim of its own beauty set against the timeless backdrop of Paris?

"Terrarium" and its main characters are four types of modern girls represented in the images of snakes: black mamba, tiger snake, copperhead, king cobra. And there is only one man for four women.