乔在父亲死后，陪母亲卡特琳娜赴意大利参加歌剧演出，却因寂寞而染上毒瘾，使卡特琳娜份外心痛，对乔百般迁就，竟使两人发展出一段畸恋，在道德觉醒下，幸未造成大错。卡特琳娜不得已将隐藏多年，乔另有生父的秘密说出，为使父母破镜重圆，乔乃前去找寻亲身父亲。导演用弗洛伊德的精神分析学说来阐述这对母子的行为，认为人的所有意义和能力都源自于性欲的需求，月亮是代表母亲和女性形象的载体，以隐喻母亲对儿子的性影响
該片由俄羅斯國家杜馬的獨立議員斯·戈沃魯欣執導。 A very typical post-Soviet era storyline. A bunch of vagabonds lured an innocent teenage girl to their apartment, offered her a drink, intimidated then gang raped her. Local cops are incapable to undertake an adequate action against the scoundrels - prevented by the superior chief of the local police (militia) which is the dad of one the scumbags. The case is closed. The girl's grand-dad tired of endless circumlocution decides to take revenge of his own.
