While performing his routine duties in a psychiatric clinic, the experienced and rigid feldsher begins to empathize with the emotions of his patients. Before he realizes, the feldsher starts living in their reality and has to save his own common sense.

The theme of the film is related to what many have been trying to answer in some form for centuries – the human psyche and the interconnectedness of everything. Instead of giving answers, the film tries, in a sense, to “free up” space for different readings, paying homage to the symbols and the endless possibilities of their interpretations.

“Interview in the Womb of the Whale” is a modern interpretation of the poem of the same name by the great Bulgarian poet Konstantin Pavlov, combined with elements of three world-famous literary works: “Notes from Underground” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “Memoirs of a Nun” by Denis Diderot and “Man and His Symbols” by Carl Jung.