1968. Young and charismatic director Jonas Jurašas stages the play "Mammoth Hunt" at Kaunas Drama Theatre. The play is a huge success: tickets are snapped up by the handful and good reviews spread by word of mouth. This popularity alarms the government of the day, which decides to ban "The Mammoth Hunt". Secretly gathering in the theatre at night, the troupe performs the play for the last time in front of the cameras and films it. Unfortunately, the film mysteriously disappears and the director is soon forced to leave not only the theatre, but also Lithuania.
"The Mammoth Hunt" and its mysterious nocturnal filming have piqued my curiosity for many years. I grew up with stories about Jurašas' plays. From my father, the actor Česlovas Stonis, who had the opportunity to work with the director at Kaunas Drama Theatre, I heard many theatre legends about the Golgotha's Road that theatre people had to go through in the last century in order to create not what the government expected, but what the audience, who was looking for a free word, was looking for in the theatre. The story of the Mammoth Hunt has become for me one of the most beautiful reflections of that time. I have tried many times to imagine what it was like - that mysterious and legendary "Mammoth Hunt", which may have changed the fate of the people who created it and captured it for the only time," says director Aistė Stonytė about the film.