Told in this way, the story looks nearly pure madness, but it is the very point of the movie: a true masterpiece. Madness is what you get when you perceive the other side of the curtain - the curtain that hides the truth. The protagonist, Naydenov, has seen the truth for a brief moment, when the curtain was removed and he was burned to near death by a shot of the ghostly "White Tiger", the monster Nazi machine. And it is very well known that removing the curtain can burn a man to a cinder, unless God Himself protects him (or perhaps Itself, if God is a battle tank). In the movie, spared by the God of tanks, Naydenov has changed - he is not any more completely human. He has seen things that humans can't even imagine.