The time is the twilight of the decrepit Brezhnev regime, the
place, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Moldavia: the "Latin
periphery of empire." A pensioner seeks justice for his dead wife,
crushed by a falling crane--the very symbol of the "construction of
socialism"--but comes up against hostility from a cynical system at
best indifferent, at worst contemptuous of human life. With a keen,
Gogolian eye for the grotesque, often squalid, details of everyday
life in the USSR, Iulian Ciocan paints darkly humorous but
compassionate portraits of Homo sovieticus, from crusty war
veterans and lowly collective farm workers to venal Party bigwigs,
as each comes to the disturbing realization that the lofty ideals
of Soviet society were lies all along. And for idealistic young
pioneer Iulian, the biggest disillusionment of all will be the
abrupt revelation of Brezhnev's mortality.
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