Moscow, the 1990s: there is a girl whose mother has died and whose father is an alcoholic under constant hospital care. On her sixteenth birthday, she leaves her parents' house to start a completely independent life, hoping to find an interesting job, friends, a boyfriend... But her new life looks set to be complicated and tragic.
Anzhelika Nevolina
Andrei Rostotsky
Igor Bochkin
Vsevolod Shilovsky
Aleksandr Kovalyov
Moscow, the 1990s: there is a girl whose mother has died and whose father is an alcoholic under constant hospital care. On her sixteenth birthday, she leaves her parents' house to start a completely independent life, hoping to find an interesting job, friends, a boyfriend... But her new life looks set to be complicated and tragic.
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