After Alexander Biryukov killed a military superior who had sexually abused him, he is on death row on the Russian Ognenny Islands. For years, he has not been allo­ wed to see his relatives. Thanks to a law changed in 1997, however, his mother was permitted to visit her son for three days. But the relevant law was modified again before the visit acutally began: These three days could be the last meeting of mother and son. The documentary is sen­sitively reporting this last meeting....