在这部一段不精密的距离短片片中,语言是个体进入社会的渠道。翻译则是试图弥合语言鸿沟的个体，其职责是将源文化和意识形态解释为目标语言。影片通过拍摄翻译、同时也是电影解说员的个人物件来呈现语言和文化的差异，如乌克兰语和俄语的手稿、打字机、影印机、印刷图像和绘画。
Language is a way for individual to enter a society. An interpreter, an individual who attempts to bridge the language gap, holds the responsibility to interpret source culture and ideology to the target language. The horizon of language and cultural differences itself is presented through shots on personal properties of the interpreter who is also the film narrator, such as handwriting in Ukrainian and Russian, typewriter, photocopy machine, printed images, and paintings.
Translator Riccardo Bertani almost never leaves his house, but still travels in his imagination through his linguistic book transformations. For him, language is a true gateway to other worlds. And although the translator speaks the entire time about other worlds and the frontiers of knowledge, we observe his home in detail from an intimate distance.
