8.047 minSeason 1 • Episode 8
LatestA fight with father-in-law brings Danila to Cossack elders. Lyuda is in hospital after attack on the store. Zhanna is at the police station, suspected of setting fire to Marik the thug's auto repair center. Will she keep her freedom?
Sveta, Marina and Lyuba work as prostitutes in a small southern township. Their friend Zhanna, who got a chance for a better life, comes back from Moscow with a plan — she wants to open a local gym. Together girls decide to abandon prostitution and start legal business, but their dream to become free, happy and independent will come at a cost.
Acting
Gorbacheva's Zhanna burns with desperate ambition
Writing
Dialogue that stings then unexpectedly warms
Production
Township claustrophobia you can taste
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Russian 'chernukha' tradition meets post-Soviet entrepreneurial myth—the series belongs to a wave of regional cinema exploring provincial women's lives outside Moscow's glare.
Director Oganesyan originally developed this as a feature; the episodic structure lets the women's degradation breathe across weeks rather than hours, which some critics called brave and others called cruel.
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