Sofia, November 7, 1952. A replica of the cruiser Aurora parades along the yellow cobbles – a revolutionary symbol reduced to spectacle. In the shadow of the celebrations, Maria, the daughter of an industrialist condemned by the People’s Court, survives as a prostitute in a decaying bourgeois hotel. Her lover is Axinia, an official sculptor of the regime who creates ideological monuments while living in fear. Italian communist journalist Marcello Conti arrives to cover the event and falls in love with Maria, refusing to accept that truth is indecent in this world. Standing between them is a powerful secret police officer – a failed singer and sexual predator, intoxicated by power.