Liliana Lungina

Andrei is the head of a gang of antisemitic skinheads clinging to the old communist ideals in post-Communist Moscow. When he learns that his long lost father actually is a Jewish bohemian living in Moscow, rather than an Afghanistan war hero, he traces him down in order to kill him. But the intriguing father and his "reactionary" lifstyle soon fascinates Andrei which leads to a clash with his gang.

Lilianna Lungina's cinematic monologue about the life of the soul and the world around us. With relentless vigilance, she examines her own development from childhood to her final days, making internal events no less fascinating than external ones. Her story is a unique combination of confession and scale, of the big picture and the general plan: it is both a portrait and a fresco, because the heroine never loses sight of life in general, of society, trying to present to the audience the fate of Russia and, in part, of Europe in the 20th century.