The experimental play by Heiner Mller is a free variation of the plot of the famous novel by Mikhail Sholokhov “Quiet Don” .. Written in a single stream, where there are replicas only in a certain hero and choir, before us in constantly repeating replicas unfolds a terrible and bloody canvas of revolutionary and post-revolutionary years. The man who carried out the purges in Vitebsk and did everything for the cause of the revolution, the bright image of which he carried in himself, is condemned by the same power that he sincerely served. And now he is declared a criminal, and now he must appear before the answer and prepare for death.