This book includes the screenplay for the film *Pictures of Friendly Ties*, along with a conversation between Lyubov Arkus and the film’s author, Sonya Raizman.

It captures one winter day and night in the lives of a group of thirty-year-old friends—former classmates from a Moscow theater school—who have gathered to see off Sasha, as he prepares to leave the country for a long time.

An outrageously free-spirited film (*Seans*).

A portrait of a generation of bewildered thirty-somethings, presented in the guise of a witty comedy (*Forbes*).