It was screened in the Panorama section at the Berlin International Film Festival.

[1] Director Pavel Bardin won the Discovery of the Year Nika Award for the picture.

[2] In the film, members of a gang called Russia 88, a gang of skinheads, are entertained by filming their beatings of people of non-Slavic appearance, to be released on the Internet.

The leader of the gang, Spike, discovers that his sister is dating a Southern Caucasian man.

Russian director Pavel Bardin was inspired to make the film by the skinhead group Format18, founded by Maxim Martsinkevich.