Spanning the chaotic years leading up to and immediately following the fall of the Soviet Union, these nine intertwined stories center upon a single apartment building in Ukraine. In "Bone Music," an agoraphobic recluse survives by selling contraband LPs, while a delusional secret service agent in "Letter of Apology" thinks he's being covertly recruited to guard Lenin's tomb. Weaving the narratives together is the chameleon-like Zaya: an orphan in "Little Rabbit," a beauty-pageant crasher in "Miss USSR," a sadist-for-hire to the Eastern Bloc's oligarchs in "Homecoming."