This is a story of a war between two powerful criminal gangs and their 'dons' (vory v zakone) in the communist Soviet Union. Corruption, cynical rhetorics, deaths of innocent people.
The film is based on a true story of a sport star Bobrov, who happened to become befriended by Vasili, the son of Stalin.
The small town in the western Kazakhstan. Pigeons is the one of the brightest signs of the post-war happy childhood. Once the fine white a pigeon appearing over the city.
A Russian stage mother will let nothing stand in the way of her son's promising career as a concert pianist.