In the 1930’s, the workers of the underground, headed by brigades of writers, are in charge to write in real time "the history of the Moscow Metro". Based on their narratives, partially unpublished, the film recounts the first lines construction of the most beautifiul underground in the world, in the light of this "big literary Utopia", stoped by the purges of 1937-38.
Julien ia a young student on a traineeship at the Departmental Archives. While he always believed that his grandfather had been a member of the French Resistance, he has doubts about his family's past. When he discovers that what he has been told is not quite the truth, he uncovers a family secret that leads to the collapse of an entire value system that had been maintained by a silent complicity.
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