Andrei is the head of a gang of antisemitic skinheads clinging to the old communist ideals in post-Communist Moscow. When he learns that his long lost father actually is a Jewish bohemian living in Moscow, rather than an Afghanistan war hero, he traces him down in order to kill him.

The film is based upon the novel by Yuli Dubov. The protagonist Platon Makovsky together with his four best friends started their hard way to reach great fortune and luxury life, but not all of them will be there at the finish line… In the roaring 90s Makovsky gets to reach what everyone desire. Now he is a powerful tycoon, but on his way to the top he has to abandon everything that has been important to him – he betrays his love and his friends. The price to pay for this success is too high – and the payback is soon to come…

A young girl Tanya comes back to her native town Lipki from Moscow where she went some time ago to work as a model. Everything here is familiar to the heroine: the simple habitants of the town, her school friends and a boy called Misha who fell in love with Tanya when they were still in school. One night at the dancing the heroine gives a lift to a coin and tells Misha that if it will be a cross she will marry him…

Ivan is old Russia: thick, dour, hard-working, often brutish; he misses Communism. He drives a taxi and one night meets Alexi, a new Russian, a musician, an alcoholic, irresponsible. Alexi stiff s Ivan for the fare, so Ivan tracks him down and a love-hate relationship ensues..