The film consists of five separate stories about different people. A young man who has just returned from the war in Transnistria. Boys who wipe car windows on the city streets for tips. A newly-minted millionaire who got rich through criminal operations. A Frenchwoman who has recently come to live permanently in Russia. A small theater troupe, cheerful and relying only on themselves.




Roofs of old houses under snow.
Setting up a kiosk on a city street.
The kiosk is filled with goods.
Alexander tells the story.
Chronicle of 1990. Military events in Transnistria.
Alexander talks about the defenders of Transnistria, about his perception of the events while working as a volunteer in Transnistria.
City sketches.
Children wash car windows on a city street.
Children have lunch after work.
Children smoke on the street.
Cigarette advertising on a city street.
The guys tell how they started working.
Transnistria, Volunteers, Children work outside
1990
Transnistria




Roofs of old houses.
Ruins.
A man taking a shower.
Passers-by looking at a shop window.
A tram driving along a city street.
Passers-by on the city streets.
A passing electric train is visible through the trees.
Windows of a house behind barbed wire.
A bandit's monologue.
City streets with torn up tram tracks.
A young woman writing a letter in French.
A photograph of the person the letter is being written to.
A woman driving along the streets of St.
Petersburg in a car.
A woman talking about her family.
Photographs from this woman's childhood.
Bandits, Jail, Love, Memories
Saint Petersburg




A French woman drives through St.
Petersburg.
An ice floe with chairs is floating down the Neva.
Leningraders are drinking in the kitchen.
Young people are discussing the creation of a theater.
An advertisement in the newspaper about a performance by a new theater.
A puppet show.
One of the company, a disabled person, is learning to walk.
Grateful spectators at the performance.
Shots with guys washing cars.
The disabled man's wife is looking out the window, around her are objects that make her husband's life easier.
The husband is resting after training on exercise machines.
A perspective of an avenue in St.
Petersburg.
Love, Theater, Disabled person, Family
Saint Petersburg



