Los alegres funerales de Alik

In the summer of 1991, as the world watches in anticipation of the Gorbachev coup, a group of Russian émigrés gather around Alik's deathbed in a stuffy New York apartment. Bedridden, this failed but charismatic artist, an energetic man in love with worldly pleasures, is capable of brightening even his own wake. As he bides his time, his loved ones reminisce about their shared experiences and lives before leaving their home country, engage in debates over which woman was his favorite lover or whether they should baptize him, and keep an eye out for news of the impending death. changes in the Soviet Union, which, like Alik, faces its end.