When a trip to buy booze from a bootlegger goes horribly wrong, a Communist official's daughter (Agniya Kuznetsova) is dragged into a terrifying world of corruption and perversion in writer-director Aleksei Balabanov's political thriller. Balabanov's film is a searing indictment of Communist Russia circa 1984, awash in violence, moral decay and hopelessness. Aleksei Poluyan, Leonid Gromov and Aleksei Serebryakov also star.