Adolescent angst is eating away at young Vera, who lives with her strict, conventional parents in one of Russia's polluted industrial towns. Since quitting school, Vera has run with a pretty fast crowd, and when she meets handsome Sergei at a thoroughly out-of-control dance, the two begin a passionate love affair. But it will take more than romance to blot out the family feuds, filthy surroundings and existential monotony plaguing her youth.



























