Shot in a steppe landscape in southern Ukraine, the film follows the process of transformation of an abandoned Soviet apartment building. Built according to a standardized Soviet master plan, its construction is slowly being dismantled by private individuals, who are creating new architectural units from the removed modules. Thus, traces of private biographies and remnants of past ideologies, inscribed in physical remnants, continue to circulate in the community and find ways to new constructions.

The film considers this process of appropriation and use as a form of material connection with the past, as well as an act of self-affirmation. Given, on the one hand, the Soviet infrastructure and belief systems that continue to influence daily life; on the other hand, to the mass political upheavals and privatization processes of the early 1990s, the film raises the question of how people and communities deal with such asynchronies as they navigate between socialist and capitalist ruins and what forms of reflection and interaction emerge.