Andrei has thrived in the new Russian capitalism and has just opened a new store of French men's shirts.

Olga, the prettiest girl in the class, is a single mother and works for a company that rents out billiard tables to bars and clubs all over Moscow.

Ruslan was a famous Russian punk rock musician who rejects society's structures.

Some of the topics that come up are conformity and rebellion, the attitudes towards the USSR and its collapse, the benefits and challenges of the transition to contemporary Russia, and the difference between the older and the younger generations.

It was nationally broadcast in the US on PBS on the series POV, and it was released on home DVD in 2012.