Sound
Simon is a street retailer, his shop a corner on the lower east side in New York, his stock bootleg cassette tapes, the ambience provided via boombox. He scrounges food from restaurants, exists on vodka and peanut butter, sleeps on the floor, and cares for an unloved cat. Marty, who may be an old girlfriend, visits. Down and out in New York.
Set in and around the city of Perm, yarn is told from the perspective of Sasha (Ivanov), a boisterous 10-year-old boy, who lives with his drunken father, a prison guard. Still haunted by the sudden disappearance of his mother when he was a child, Sasha tries to gather bits and pieces of info about the circumstances of her death, which is surrounded with a veil of mystery.