Rural life through the eyes of a city girl - where cannibalism neighbors Verka Serdyuchka, and grandmother's advice replaces cosmetologists and SPF. Moscow is not a paradise, but rather a battlefield for bunk space and self-identification, where to "break through" is to survive rather than to conquer. The story of growing up in conditions where even the toilet is a challenge and mom is a mystery leaves an aftertaste of slightly bitter absurdity.
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