How did it happen that a Russian feels like an outcast in his own country? If society and власти carefully pretend that such a question doesn’t exist, then young people themselves try to find an answer. And it seems, well, let them search—yet all too often these inquisitive searches take the most terrible and unpredictable forms. And then a young history teacher who preaches internationalism and tolerance turns into a notorious xenophobe, while his friend—a model athlete and an example for every city boy—becomes a merciless murderer…