Dangerous enemy or key partner, Vladimir Putin is volatile but relentless. After Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine, his army is penetrating into Syria, crossing the boundaries of the former USSR for the first time since its fall. He has become the privileged ally of the emerging world powers from China to Iran and an inspiring model for the right (FN, UKIP) and left-wing (Syriza) oppositions in Europe.It took him little more than three years to turn a marginalised country into a superpower. How did he do it? The film looks back at the different stages of this geopolitical miracle through the often forgotten eyes of the Russian people. The vast majority see Vladimir Putin as the saviour of the Nation, the man capable to resuscitate a rival to the American superpower and to oppose the rise of Islamism.To build the story of Russia and explain Putin’s ambition to place it high up in the world order, we will follow in the traces of the trans-Siberian railway, symbol of Russian gigantism. Travelling from West to East across the Russian continent, we will meet citizens of different ages, professions, social status and origins. They will tell us about their Putin, their Russia, be they Slavs, Tartars, Caucasians or Buriats... in some way marked by the history of their country. Putin’s alternative global order is based on the same regime that in the past silenced the people of this vast Empire. The voice of today’s Russia is one. Putin aspires to being the Maestro, as if Europe, the Middle East and Asia were his own orchestra, just as the orchestra of the regions within the Russian Federation. The question is, will the present systemic crisis and the terrorist threat to the world push other countries too into the arms of this dreadful protector?