Stalin promised a bridge is a documentary about the inhabitants of Siberia. About the pioneers in the 1960’s who went to Siberia to work in the oil fields for the greater glory and honour of the fatherland. About the nomads who for centuries traveled through Siberia with their reindeer living in harmony with nature, until the oil barons came and robbed them of their means of existence. About the survivors of the Gulag Archipelago the former political prisoners and kulaks who now live among the mass graves. They live together on the banks of the river Ob. And they all share the same memory.