Students from the Documentary Film School come to the Ukrainian province to shoot a revelatory film about the waste-dumping mafia. In order not to be exposed, they pretend to be filming a typical Soviet-style story about a local land fill. "The Garbage Baron" understands at once that the film targets at showing him in a bad light, but astonishingly, he feels flattered by the attention to him, as this film is all the more reason to demonstrate his authority and power on his territory.