The true story is about Ivan Sanchin, a KGB official who served as Stalin's private film projectionist from 1939 until his death. From Sangqin's perspective, the compassionate but tragically flawed hero Squirrel expresses his feelings towards himself as a 'master'; Despite the arrest of his neighbors, he was implicated in their daughter, his wife's extramarital affair with the chilling director of the National Security Agency, Rafferty Belia, and his tragic decline, as well as the deadly political conspiracy he witnessed within the Kremlin.
