Sans limite

An expression you hear all over Moskow today is "Biez Prediel" (no limit). Earlier, it would have been the success of the Soviet regime which knew no limits, but today these words only reveal the total disorder and lack of perspective which characterize the post-Communist Russians. For better or for worse, the old Soviet "moral values" at least gave life a context and a dangerously rigid set of rules. Now that the walls have vanished, all the old reliable values and taboos are on the move. But the moral and ethical foundations have been lost as well - political fortunes, the currency, religion, the economy, health care - all move forward with lurches or, what is worse, sometimes lurch backward. Through four individuals (a young painter, a housekeeper for the Nomenklatura, a miner from the far North and a soldier combatting the new mafia), this film is a chronicle of the life of Russian people today.