Gathered under this cover are foreigners. Some by passport, some by spirit, and some simply too flamboyant for this world. Meryl Streep and Mikhail Baryshnikov, Alla Pugacheva and Jean Cocteau, Vera Polozkova and Greta Garbo. And also Audrey Hepburn, Margarita Terekhova, Andrey Danilko, Renata Litvinova...

They have one thing in common: they are "different," they "didn't fit in"—and so they created their own. Their own cinema, their own ballet, their own theater... their own culture.

Journalist, critic, essayist, and editor-in-chief of Zima magazine, Sergei Nikolaevich doesn't just write about celebrities—he deciphers them. With an almost intimate precision, yet elegant and aesthetically pleasing.

Alla Pugacheva, an icon who has always been and remains "inconvenient"; Renata Litvinova, who turned her strangeness into art; Dmitry Krymov, a philosophical director who eschews stereotypes; Sophia Loren, who has conquered time, age, and prejudice...
Yes, they are foreigners. Foreigners are everywhere.