Using an elaborate system of denunciation, the chief of the Zone keeps his prisoners in check. A new inmate, allegedly imprisoned for speculating on postage stamps, tries to rebel against the system.
‘The wild nineties’ is a term with a negative evaluative connotation, characterising the period of the transition period after the collapse of the Soviet Union and Russian Federation's formation in the 1990s, with social instability and crime rate growth inherent in the change of state political system.