June 1941. Preparations for the wedding of a butcher’s son and a rabbi’s daughter are in full swing in a Jewish shtetl in the Lviv Region. The intrigue of this seemingly ordinary event is that Yuna – the bride – loves another man and he, Mendele… plans to kidnap her. At this very time, a Nazi death squad is approaching the shtetl.
A seventeen-year-old village school graduate, a guy nicknamed Kazan, dreams of becoming a famous rapper and winning the heart of Sveta. For the sake of his dream, he is willing to risk everything, but circumstances steer his life in a different direction.
A provincial journalist visits a famous writer and Nobel Prize winner to interview him on the occasion of release of his new novel. However, their conversation reminiscent of a chess game gradually reveals a chain of secrets that link the two men to the same woman. Based on the play by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt «Variations énigmatiques».
