Stas, a young Korean of the third generation in Uzbekistan, and his three friends try more or less successfully to escape from the gloomy life in Tashkent, either through drug addiction, death or emigration.

Stas is a young Korean of the third generation in Uzbekistan. Under Stalin his grandparents were deported from the far East of the Soviet Empire. He and his three friends try more or less successfully to escape from the gloomy life in Tashkent, either through drug addiction, death or emigration.—Zamie