Movie Description:
December 1949 Joseph Stalin rules Russia through a brutal regime of terror and systematizedtorture.Inside Mavrino Prison, the first circle of penal hell in Stalin`s Russia, the inmates-physicists, mathematicians, electrical engineers, technical expertsare forced to operate a scientific research center. The term of their sentence is undefined. A discovery useful to the goverment could meanfreedom. A failure could mean alabor camp in Siberia. From a phone booth on a dark Moscow street,a man makes a furtive and huriedphone call to the American Embassy. His call is being recorded by the Ministry of Security, for whom establishing the caller`s identity becomes a matter ofmounting urgency. At Mavrino, a voice print analysis machine is in late stage development. The pressure to complete it becomesrelentless. As tension, suspicion and the risk of betrayal mount, each scientist must struggle to retain his humanity in the face of overwhelmingtyranny.
