Facing imminent arrest, infatuated with Margarita, he is inspired to write his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, a satirical novel that is scathingly critical of power and the powerful. To make matters worse, Bulgakov has fallen in love with the dangerously outspoken Margarita. Meanwhile, a mysterious agent of the secret police has developed a growing obsession with exposing Bulgakov as an enemy of the state.
His friend and mentor, the poet Osip Mandelstam, has been arrested, tortured, and sent into exile. It is 1933 and Mikhail Bulgakov's enviable career is on the brink of being dismantled.
A time when expression was censored by authoritarian rule, eerily mirroring the politcial suppression of today. A love triangle involving Mikhail Bulgakov, famed author of The Master and Margarita, an agent of Stalin's secret police, and the bewitching Margarita has inescapable consequences for all three in 1930s Russia.
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