Eight dreams - or rather nightmares, record the anguish of a society ravaged by the horrors of war and violent exile. Mikhail Bulgakov, the 'heretic' of the Soviet regime, armed with only his penetrating, relentless humor and raging satire, leads us into a wandering journey from the frozen Crimea to Constantinople and the flamboyant Paris, taking pictures of a chaotic world that desperately tries to get away of (maybe)