From March 2, 1917, the day of his abdication, to July 17, 1918, the night of the assassination of his whole family and his last servants in the Ipatiev house in Ekatarinenburg, this film will retrace the daily life of the last Czar of Russia and his. This drama will loom on other dramas: the February revolutions, then October 17 in Russia, the First World War with its millions of deaths, then the beginnings of the Russian civil war which will also make hundreds of thousands. of victims ... The fall of the Romanov house is part of the even more shattering one of a world that will disappear forever, that of the great continental monarchies.