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A young copywriter Sergey dreams of escaping from a boring life and writing a novel. He quits his job, locks himself alone in his apartment to devote all his time to this, but the process is difficult. One day he notices in the reflection of the mirror on the door of an old massive cabinet that the page on the laptop screen is covered with text, while in reality it is completely empty. Sergey copies the written text from the reflection and realizes that this is the beginning of the novel, which he tried to invent himself. Soon Sergey gets acquainted with a mirror image of himself, which seems to him more confident, free and talented. Reflection gradually subordinates Sergey, gains power over him, teaches him how to become productive and successful. But what is the price of this success and the chances of finding yourself again
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On the eve of his fortieth anniversary Sergei Makarov looks back at his life and learns that he has achieved nothing. He was not able to be happy and to bring happiness to the closest people in his life, neither to his long-suffering wife nor young mistress nor friends nor work... It is about the men who never grew up and could not find themselves in the time of stagnation – gifted, charming, but infantile and lost, they never were able to realize themselves...

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