A film editor finds out that the only way to finish film of deceased director is to completely replace his own life with the director's.

Prologue: October 1988. We see JAKOV directing the (last) scene of his film. However, we do not see what exactly he is shooting in old, almost abandoned Mediterranean town Perast. October 1989. IVAN, a critic and editor, is invited by his PRODUCER to stop by his office at the Titograd Film Studio, because he has something important to suggest to him. He explains to him that Jakov's widow, the French actress EDWIGE, whom no one knew about until then, asked Ivan to come to Perast, in order to look at the material and finish the editing of Jakov's testament, the recording of which we saw in the Prologue. Edwige shows Ivan, in the Perastan palace, Jakov's improvised studio, where he needs to do the editing. From the start, Ivan is fascinated by