Roman Uzhasov

The ambitious nonconformist director Pedro convinces the actress Anna that passion is inseparable from suffering, and staged in an independent theater one of the saddest stories in the world, the forerunner of all subsequent Romeos and Juliets - about Tristan and Isolde. The stage romance spills over into life, and suffering is brought not so much by love as by Anna’s flirtation with television: the soap opera “Pigs and Beads” is a terrible rival. Things get tense when Pedro compromises his principles and enters into a contract with a media mogul to adapt an old legend. And now filming in the Brazilian province is in full swing, and Anna, it seems, is planning a serious relationship with a young scoundrel who got the role of Tristan by deception...