ARCHIVIST S STORY

It is Moscow, in 1939. The great author Isaac Babel is spending his lastdays in the infamous Lubyanka prison, forbidden to write. His final workshave been consigned to the young archivist Pavel Dubrov, who must destroythem. But Pavel makes a reckless decision in the face of a vastbureaucracy of evil: he will save the stories of the writer he so admires,whatever the cost.