At a time of working class uprising and elitist decline, an over-educated, privileged family finds that norms have shifted and the world is closing in on itself. Are better fortunes just around the corner? Can we hold onto the past while we wait for them? Join Irina for her birthday party at their rural estate.
And don’t bring up Moscow.
“I don’t think there exists a town so dull and boring it didn’t have a need for intelligent, educated people. All right, let’s suppose there are only three people like you. Of course you won’t be able to overcome the masses. But you will have some influence. After you’ve gone there will be six more like you, then twelve, until finally people like you will be in the majority. In two or three hundred years, life will be unimaginably beautiful. We must wait for it, dream of it, prepare for it.”
