Recently a team of writers and producers from hit British soaps went out to Kazakhstan, a distant republic of the former Soviet Union, in order to teach the Kazakhs how to put together programmes along the lines of Casualty, EastEnders and Coronation Street. Tonight's film charts their often hilarious attempt to instill the values of soap opera into a group of intellectual writers and a demoralised cross-section of producers and workers who have only just emerged from years of Stalinist communism.
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