For most Europeans following the ending of the Second World War, the former Soviet Union loomed large as a nefarious presence on the international political landscape. . Then in 1991, the facade cracked and spectacularly it all came crashing down. So what is life like for Russians today? For its old age pensioners? For the generation who lost everything in the abrupt embrace of a most virulent and rapacious form of capitalism? What is life like for the peasantry and in what way are their lives any different not just from Soviet but Tsarist times? And the young: can they be more confident of a future better than that of their parents and grandparents? This is a film that will put Russia back on the map. It will give Irish audiences a real sense of what life is now like in what was once a world superpower.