This iconic work by the great Russian writer is a bold satire against the bureaucrats of Stalinist Moscow, a dreamlike journey from the grey buildings of the KGB to the plains of Judea and the hill of Calvary, and a passionate romance between Margarita and the outcast Master. It moves deftly between reality and imagination, the New Testament and socialist realism, a complex work, which with the devil on stage, is a magical whirligig of politics, theology and love.