The protagonist of the film is a genius Georgian filmmaker Mikheil Kobakidze. Mikheil Kobakhidze's professional as well as personal biography is truly remarkable and overwhelmed with both achievements and tragedies. When he was still a student, the Soviet censorship banned and destroyed his short film ''Eight and a Half'' - the film that can only be found in the memory of the film director - Mikheil Kobakhidze. ''Lost Eight and a Half'' is a major topic of the film, which tells the story of Mikheil Kobakhidze in first-person.