Anastasiya Bedredinova

A sus 16 años Lilja es una joven rusa que ha sido abandonada por su madre y lleva una vida miserable en una ciudad pobre de la decadente ex-Unión Soviética. Su única vía para poder escapar del hambre y de la pobreza más extrema es prostituyendo su cuerpo esporádicamente. Entre toda esa desdicha su único amigo es Volodja, un niño de 11 años adicto al pegamento, ambos intentan escapar de la realidad soñando con una vida mejor. Un día parece que esa vida soñada por fin se pone al alcance de Lilja cuando conoce a Andrei, del cual se enamora y éste le propone que se marche con él a Suecia y empiece una nueva vida.

In 1921, the Cheka became aware that gold and jewelry were stolen from the treasury of Gokhran, and that a special organization was involved in transporting the stolen to Estonia. Scout Maksim Isayev is sent to this country. He establishes that the cipher of the Soviet embassy Olenetskaya works for the German resident Nolmar, with whom employees of Gokhran Kozlovskaya and an appraiser Yakov Shelekhes are associated. As a result of the provocation, Isayev was arrested. In the prison cell, he finds himself together with the famous Russian writer Nikandrov, who could not find himself in post-revolutionary Russia and went abroad. Released soon by the efforts of his comrades, Isayev continues the struggle for the fate of Nikandrov — for his return to his homeland.