The film tells the story of a group of Czech actors who come to Polish steelworks to perform a stage adaptation of
Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1880 novel
The Brothers Karamazov at an alternative drama festival. As rehearsals get under way, we follow not only the emotional story examining issues of faith, immortality, and the salvation of the human soul, but also the relationships within the acting troupe itself, which strangely reflect Dostoevsky's "great" themes. The stage drama is transferred to the real world when a tragedy occurs during rehearsal involving one of the spectators. ==Cast==