When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, there were almost three hundred million people living in it. "Soviet people". Was it just a propaganda myth, or did "homo sovieticus" really exist? And has it already become a thing of the past? Director Ivo Briedis joined forces with journalist Rita Ruduša. Both grew up in the Soviet Union, and both feel it left an imprint on them that continues to shape them. In their native Latvia, they sit down to old photographs and open the floodgates of memories. They soon lead them to family members and then to many other people from the former Soviet bloc, from Yerevan to Moscow to Prague or Berlin. They weave conversations, confront the past with the present, compare their own thoughts. Did the Soviet era leave us a mark? How does it manifest itself? Do we want to get rid of him? And does it remain only in individuals, or does it influence the social climate through them to this day?