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A drama about the youth of the late 1980s. The action takes place in Moscow. A young girl named Nadia, whom her own mother left in the hospital, has fun and quite innocently spends time with her friends. Before returning from a walk home is repainted in punk and brings his own kind of mother. The girl falls in love with a veteran of the Afghan war - a married man. She is called to look after his son, unsuccessfully trying to achieve reciprocity.
Status
Released
Original Language
RU

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma and Gagarin, gradually become fierce enemies as they find themselves on opposite sides of the strict code of honour of the ‘honest criminal’ brotherhood.

A shell-shocked Afghanistan war hero named Ivan Skryabin (Mikhail Skryabin) spends his days stoking the fire in a giant coal furnace. When he isn’t tending the flames, he keeps busy with other activities. He works on a historical novel. His adult daughter Sasha (Aida Tumutova) comes to visit. Local kids come to gaze at the flames. Gangsters, including a former Army sergeant (Aleksandr Mosin) and a sniper known as Bison (Yuri Matveyev), drop by to add special kindling to the fire.