Sergey Ilyutin

Summer is coming in a small town on the Volga, and in the life of the self-confident and resourceful Sasha, it is a transitional time. At the age of 15, he is in a hurry to grow up, and growing up for him means earning and spending what he wants, sleeping with a girl from the next class and overcoming his enemy - a bully from the working outskirts.

Teodor Currentzis, one of the most gifted conductors in the world, spent 7 years working in the city of Perm, Russia. It made him a local hero, while the annual Diaghilev Festival under his guidance became one of the country's biggest contemporary arts events. This story focuses on the last two weeks of Currentzis' tenure in Perm in an attempt to understand how modern Russia and its art come along.