Silent Planet

<p>Silent Planet is a love story about our love of stories a passionate and poetic fable about the power of literature in a world in which the wrong words can get you killed.</p><p><br></p><p>At the height of the Cold War dissident writer Gavriil is detained in a Soviet mental prison as a punishment for protesting against the government. His only escape is the prison library a treasure store of banned literature available to the patients but off-limits to the prison staff. His interrogator Yurchak offers to protect him from torture in exchange for sharing the forbidden stories. Their agreement allows them both a kind of freedom - at the risk of their lives. </p>