While researching a film about the political upheavals in Georgia during the Perestroika era, the director is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. The radical treatment that follows, known as ”graft-versus-host“, represents his only chance of survival. In this speculative documentary essay, he draws a parallel between his own course of treatment and the introduction of a new economic system in the USSR, a shift that ultimately led to the implosion of the existing order and paved the way for the free-market economy. It was a radical act, the side effects of which are still felt in the region today.