Two socially marginalized women end up as suspects of a murder whose crime scene they had just cleaned up.

Set in the Soviet Union, 'Hostages' follows the story of a young man caught up in a hijacking incident, leading to a dramatic courtroom trial and a battle for justice. The film explores themes of friendship, suspicion, and the struggle for truth in a time of political unrest.

In the regional centre Kuznetsky the mayor has been killed in his office. The murderer is Dimur Kavsadze, in charge of commercial construction work for the city administration. A squall of public concern beleaguers the city. Alexander Danilin is an undercover curator, an intermediary between the business and the authorities; he tries to eliminate trouble and return life to normal. The cause of the tragedy was a construction project, which wrapped itself around Kuznetsky like a tumour, and which was a source of profit for the authorities and the local builders. The construction “devours” free land, the souls of people and even what seems beyond the law of profit: the family. Neither the death of people, nor common sense can stop the construction…

Republic of Georgia, 2016: in a small town of Gori, the birthplace of Stalin, his followers gather to commemorate him on the 63rd anniversary of his death when strange things begin to occur.