Parallels
Lena is a teenage girl living in the suburbs of Russia. She's been fighting with her working-class parents to follow her dream: to attend theater school in Los Angeles and become an actor. But Lena's mother Anastasia in particular opposes Lena leaving the country, having worked hard to build a good life herself.
As the pair fight, Anastasia thinks back to her struggles in 1970s U.S.S.R., where Anastasia faced bullies, couldn't fit in and found her own dreams of an athletic career often thwarted by her circumstances and her mother. As Lena pursues her dreams despite opposition, Anastasia soon faces challenges of her own.
