A father and son live together in a rooftop apartment that thanks to their haunting memories and personal rituals is more like their own private world. So enmeshed have they become that sometimes they seem more like brothers than aging parent and adult child. Following in his father′s footsteps. Alexei attends military school. He likes sports, tends to be irresponsible and has problems with his girlfriend. So intimate is the relationship between the two men, the younger man′s girlfriend is jealous of Alexei′s close relationship with his father. Alexei knows that all sons must one day live their own lives, but despite this, he is emotionally conflicted. But if the son cannot leave home, then perhaps it is the father′s duty to move on to a new city or even a new wife. But who will ease the pain of Alexei′s nightmares then?In this emotionally intense film Russian master Alexander Sokurov delivers a beautiful companion piece to his exquisite classic Mother and Son(1997) revealing a love between father and son stronger than any previously depicted in the cinema.