House of Fools

“It's a mad, mad, mad world...”

Zhanna (Yuliya Vysotskaya) is a patient in a psychiatric hospital on the Russian border with Chechnya, where she lives in the certainty that she is engaged to Bryan Adams. When the war comes to the institution's door, Andrei Konchalovsky keeps his camera among the patients as they carry on with their daily routines. Armed men have come to the hospital, and the people inside it have nowhere else to go.