The third of 12 films about life in the Soviet Union.

Sergei Kuryokhin is a jazz rock musician living in Leningrad. For 18 months the BBC asked for official permission to film Kuryokhin and were repeatedly refused. Finally the producer went in as a tourist with a friend and shot the film on amateur video equipment.
The film follows Kuryokhin as he meets friends, relaxes with his family and rehearses with his big band Popular Mechanics. The band has a large following among the young people of Leningrad despite, or perhaps because of, the fact it is disapproved of by the state authorities. Kuryokhin talks openly about his problems and ambitions and shows that it is possible to live beyond conventional society in the USSR.