Avraham Bahar leaves debt-ridden and depressed Albania to seek a better
life in, ironically, Stalinist Russia. A professional barber, he curries
favor with the Communist regime, ultimately being invited to become
Stalin's personal barber at the Kremlin, where he is entitled to live in
a government house with other Soviet dignitaries. In the intrigue that
follows, Avraham, now known as Razan, is not only barber to Stalin but
also to the many Stalin look-alikes that the paranoid dictator
circulates to thwart possible assassination attempts--including one from
Razan himself.