The House of Stilts

Dedicated to the Squats of St Petersburg and Their Inhabitants
This narrative focuses on a historical fragment lasting just over a year: from late summer 1990 to December 1991. At this time, what was still Leningrad served as the backdrop for the "Twilight of Developed Socialism" in a single, isolated locality.
Sonya, a sixteen-year-old girl freshly graduated from school, makes an impulsive decision to sever ties with her family and move to Moscow to study.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, however, she ends up not in Moscow but in the St Petersburg System - the post-Soviet underground with its full spectrum of attributes. This is how the hippie community describes its way of life. Surrounding her is the St Petersburg bohemia: musicians, artists, drug dealers, poets, punks. But, much like Alice in the famous tale of Through the Looking-Glass, it's all just an illusion.
Alone, she must figure out who her true friends are, what her goals in this journey might be, and who she sees herself becoming in the future.