In 1991, Levan Zakareishvili had a critical success with They, a film about a man trapped by corruption and an examination of the roots of unrest in the former Soviet Union. Since then, he has been trying to complete his follow-up, but a lack of financing opportunities and a civil war in Georgia made the project′s process extremely slow. But it was shot, and re-shot over the years, and Tbilisi-Tbilisi was finally completed. Mirroring Zakareishvili′s own experiences, Dato is a filmmaker despairing of his film ever getting made; he spends most of his time drinking and moping about his unproduced screenplay. Around him in contemporary Tbilisi are his old professor, now selling produce in a market, youths who have no options aside from prostitution and pick pocketing, and a blind beggar girl, a refugee who lost her parents in the conflict in Abkhazia. Tbilisi-Tbilisi is a poignant, moving story of intertwining characters that reflects the city as it is now?and carries within it the hope for the city as it might be again in the future.