In his rarely-seen and renowned documentary, made under the prohibitive conditions of only one hour daily quota of electricity in a war-torn and block-aded Armenia, Mikhail Vartanov tells of his imprisoned friend, the genius Sergej Parajanov, who was persecuted by KGB at the peak of his artistic power. Vartanov takes us back with scenes from his shelved 1969 film Cvet Armjanskoj Zemli [ the Color of Armenian Land] where Paradžanov is at work on his suppressed chef-d’oeuvre The Color of Pomegranates, as well as unpublished letters Parajanov wrote to Vartanov from prison, and Parajanov’s striking last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession. “Parajanov’s dreams, his farewell to the characters of his lms, who along with thousands of fans see him o to the last journey. A dove emerges from within the grave and ies o towards the immortality”.

Martiros Vartanov