A Juvenile Country

When Lev arrives at the pioneer summer camp in Crimea, he is immediately dragged into an illegal booze-smuggling operation, and finds himself part of the camp elite, the notorious Five. There he meets Nik, the arrogant and ill-tempered gang leader and falls desperately in love against his will.

A Juvenile Country is a tender, coming-of-age queer story about the unthinkable romance in chaotic post-soviet Ukraine. A tale of the first generation to grow up after the fall of the regime, learning to survive in the obscure reality of a newborn country. It's a peek into the life of a pioneer camp, with its head-spinning freedom of the strictly-regulated days of the Shift.