Artyom is 15 years old. This is the same age when you are not an adult, but also not small. It was in this, the last summer of childhood, that everything fell on Artyom at once: the betrayal of his father, who remained abroad after the tour, first love, friendship forever and quarrel forever. Artyom has only a skateboard - this is how in the 80s in the USSR they called skate, which Soviet teenagers had just begun to learn about. Now Artyom needs only one thing: by all means to win in street competitions.
Oleg Vidov — one of the Soviet Union's most beloved actors — was persecuted, blacklisted and pushed to the breaking point before escaping to the West and achieving the American dream.
1961년, 키로프 발레단 단원 루돌프 누레예프는 처음으로 소련을 떠난다. 파리의 생활로 기쁜 누레예프는 파리의 문화, 예술, 음악을 열망하지만, 그의 일거수일투족을 주시하는 KGB는 그의 행동에 대한 의심을 키운다. 결국 그들에게 충격적인 요구를 들은 누레예프는 그의 인생을 영원히 바꿀 수 있는 가슴 아픈 결정을 내리게 된다.