When Sandro's father decides to become a monk, the withdrawn teenager feels as if the ground is slipping away under his feet. With his mother working abroad and his grandmother too old to take care of him, the boy walks the path of maturity alone and opens up to both the girl Lasha, who belongs to the ultra-right movement, and to his own budding sexuality. In Panopticum, the director searches for the boundary between being an observer and being observed, while reflecting contemporary society in Sakartvelo, where Christian traditions and nationalism are in conflict with the desire to build a modern and independent state.
