This film is an autobiographical film by director Andrei Tarkovsky. As a child, Tarkovsky follows his mother (Margarita Terikova Margarita Terekhova) to his relatives to borrow money. He finds a mirror in a strange room alone and examines himself through it. In Bach's music, Tarkovsky's memory slowly brings out a series of events: it is broadcast on TV that a young man who stutters has cured himself by hypnosis. A neglected wife meets a lost country doctor and the two have an inextricable relationship; an unseen narrator quarrels with his ex-wife; a precocious young man is scolded by a military instructor. These unrelated piecemeal memories are connected by mirrors to show the director's philosophical thinking on time, history, life, land, dreams and other images. The director's mother plays the artist's mother in the film; his father, a famous Russian poet, reads his poems in a voiceover.
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