影片讲述了前苏联文学家丹尼尔·伊万诺维奇·哈尔姆斯，这位荒诞戏剧大师的一生。这部人物传记类影片将视线聚焦在哈尔姆斯的超现实主义作品上。 音乐与寂静，创作与匮乏，沉思与诙谐…… 年轻的纨绔子弟丹尼尔·伊万诺维奇，用英文单词“charms”和“harm”之间的谐音关联为自己取了笔名哈尔姆斯。他沉迷于文学界聚会，热衷于流言蜚语。他生活在社会中，却又与之完全隔离。他试图脱下时代的枷锁，却将自己深深陷入了现实的漩涡中。他的精神世界清晰而又模糊，充满了矛盾的对立面。 哈尔姆斯自视为一个天才，但却没有出版商愿意出版他的书籍，而他爱上的女人们也无一能够真正理解他的内心。经济困难和与现实脱轨的现状充斥着哈尔姆斯的生活。 他破旧的公寓、杂志社的办公室、列宁格勒的街道、河边的堤岸和城市的屋顶、他的热情澎湃、他所生活的世界，这一切，都成为了他生命的牢笼。他能否处理社会带来的压力，错落的爱情和虚无的创作呢？ 影片分为黑白与彩色两个部分，黑白部分是哈尔姆斯所处时代的真实影像记录，彩色的部分则是由现代的演员负责演绎的。

California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients, yet everything seems deserted. What's more, his wife won't answer his calls. It's as if everyone were avoiding him. When his car breaks down, Sam becomes a prisoner of the empty, hostile environment. Alone and without human contact for days on end, he listens continuously to a talk-show on the only local radio station. The host, a man named Eddy, takes calls from listeners who share their thoughts on a child killer at large in the area. At the same time, Sam starts getting psychologically harassed by strange threats he receives on his pager. Gradually, people begin to reappear and attempt to kill him. Sam has become a target and he must now defend himself. Little by little he loses it, caught up in a paranoid identity crisis. Is he truly the killer they're after, or is he being driven ...

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