During lectures on literature, evening student Sasha Mukhin, a subway driver, sleeps and dreams. In approximate accordance with the subject of the lectures, he either tries to prevent Pushkin’s duel with Dantes, either intervenes in the events of Spartak’s rebellion, or is present at Galileo’s abdication, then meets a person from the future and learns from him his future fate.
as Mukhin
as Lida / Lidiya / Livia
as Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
as Spartacus / metro train driver
as Benckendorff / Titus Valerius / inquisitor
as physics teacher / Galileo Galilei
as senator / director / singing monk / storekeeper at St. Paul's Monastery
as Claudius
as equipment inspector / Roman drinker man / inquisitor priest / priest confessing Mukhin
as student / Natalya Goncharova
as student
as Yevgeniya Nikolayevna
as audience's janitor / Roman woman
as Diogenes / Demosthenes / sculptor
as student / Roman man
as Nicholas I of Russia