Minsk, Belarus, 1996. Velya, an aspiring DJ, wants to move to Chicago to make her dreams come true, but bureaucracy, a phone line and the human condition will put obstacles in her way that will be difficult to avoid.
Elena is a student in Minsk. She is having an intense but self-destructive love affair with Viktor. When Elena's father goes to prison she has to take charge of his business dealings to help him. She drives repeatedly into the restricted zone at Chernobyl, behind the wheel of a truck, in order to smuggle contaminated steel. The conflicts with Viktor escalate, and Elena is increasingly captivated by the zone's deceptive beauty...
Vasilisa returns to her hometown for the wedding of her school friend Inna. Inna’s groom “Chistiy” with his two friends “Lambada” and “Kolbasa” organize a unplanned bachelor party on the eve of the wedding. Inna and Vasilisa show up unannounced to the party. Based on real events from 2014 in the city of Gomel.
