Egor, a successful thirty-year-old engineer falls in love with Lucy, a flamboyant artist and amateur actress. He clashes with her brother Alex, an "evil genius� photographer, who has dedicated his new exhibition "Sunless City" to St. Petersburg. Egor can't understand the values of the "sunless city�, the fringe world inhabited by Lucy and Alex. After Egor realizes that Lucy is a drug addict, he desperately tries to save her...