Anya comes to the stark realization that memory does not fade or disappear rather, it moves us across time, connecting our past to our future, joys to sorrows. When she meets Lopatin again, he is a smug businessman who wants to buy her parents’ dacha. Years later, Anya returns to Russia from America, where she has chosen a different kind of life, far from her family and the bittersweet memories of her friends. But the world is changing, and the fleeting time they have together is cut short by a sudden tragedy. They pair up with classmates Trifonov and Lopatin, and the four friends share secrets, desires, and all the turbulent and carefree pleasures of youth. Meanwhile, Anya’s parents talk about World War II, the Blockade, and the hardships they have endured.īy the time the girls are fifteen, the Soviet Empire is on the verge of collapse. They spend their summers at Anya’s dacha just outside of Moscow, lazing in the apple orchard, listening to Queen songs, and fantasizing about trips abroad and the lives of American teenagers. Coming of age in the USSR in the 1980s, best friends Anya and Milka try to envision a free and joyful future for themselves.
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