Storyline

A story about a young woman, Vera, who is somebody, living the life of a troubled teenager in the time right before the end of the Soviet Union. She lives in a very small Russian apartment with her mother and father, however being this close to each other makes the living get rough. Their daily life is plagued with massive amounts of alcohol (mainly vodka) and when she tries to escape her home life, she meets up with a boyfriend, Sergei who then moves into her already small apartment after sleeping with her. Every day little Vera has to go through hell just to get by, which even involves her going against her own morals after her father has done something extremely wrong.—Rosa Thompson

Plot Keywords

young girl, boyfriend, mother, father, brother, hedonistic, dark, melodramatic, fiery, ukraine, coming of age, soviet union, socialism, bad behavior, growing up, love, 1980s

Short Review

For all its bleakness and disillusion, there is a poignant innocence in it.

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