The key figure of the Great October Socialist Revolution of 1917 in Russia was Lenin. After his death in 1924 Lenin’s image was immortalized in countless numbers of monuments in the Soviet Union and in the Soviet bloc’s countries. In her video, Marina Fomenko refers to the in-stone-engraved image of the revolutionary leader through archival materials and found footage. There is neither a living nor a dead Lenin in the film; only “the stone guest” has become ingrained in the Soviet people's lives.