Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought to preserve his own talent and decency with poet and writer Joseph Brodsky, while watching his artist friends got crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

The members of an amateur theater group share the losses and sorrows of war with Armenian provincial town's inhabitants.

Two neighbour families both claim ownership of a huge mulberry tree growing in the middle of their two houses.

Having learned about her terrible illness and unavoidable death, Victoria, decides to leave her five-year old daughter in the case of her father-in-law.