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Moscow, 1996. Andrey Rubanov, a young and enterprising banker, has a wife, Irma, and a small child. And also — more than a million dollars for two with my friend Misha. Seeing themselves as the future elite of the new state, the oligarchs, they fit into a major deal, but it turns out that their friends were involved in a large-scale scam to steal billions from the treasury. After his arrest, Andrei finds himself in an overcrowded communal cell at the Matrosskaya Tishina, a purgatory where he will have to become a different person in order to survive and return to his familiar world.
Status
Released
Original Language
RU

Soviet Georgia, 1983. Preparations for Nika and Ana's wedding are in full swing and it's a big day for both of their elite families. For the newlyweds and their friends, however, the celebrations are in fact part of a cover-up, as they plot an audacious escape from the Soviet Union.

Long separated from his family, hitman Joshua returns to Brighton Beach for a contract killing for the Russian Mafia. His abusive father, Arkady, banned him from returning after Joshua committed his first murder. He takes up residence in a hotel, and soon everyone knows he has returned. He goes home to visit his dying mother, Irina, and prepares for the assassination, getting drawn back into the criminal community he left behind.