 The true story of Ivan Sanchin, the KGB officer who was Stalin s private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictator s death. Told from Sanchin s view, the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero maintains unwavering faith in his "Master" despite the arrest of his neighbors and his involvement with their daughter, his wife s affair with the chilling State Security chief Lavrentii Beria and her tragic decline, and the deadly political machinations within the Kremlin he witnesses firsthand.