The cry of the soul In this film, released on the eve of the collapse of the USSR, despair and the question of an entire generation: ': Is everything in vain?'
Generations of builders of communism, titans who performed military and labor exploits in the name of the future, at the end of their lives saw this very future: an extinct village, children left for work in the city, a grandson trying to pull money from his own grandfather and outright scum capable of robbing a disabled veteran.
And after all, this new generation did not take on its own, they themselves allowed to spit on the name of the leader, with whom they went to die for the Motherland, they raised Alexei, who went abroad without even informing his parents, the Gena of the mother-in-law and wife who lives in the apartment who is fit for him in a daughter, the alcoholic Cyril and scum-motorcyclists. . .
And even the younger Vladimir, seemingly a good man does not understand how and what his old people live.
The director still has an answer worthy of these indomitable people: '. . . '
