Tanya, young and naïve, leaves Moscow with her street-wise 10-year-old son Artiom to meet her English fiancé. But after he fails to turn up at the airport, Tanya and her son find themselves virtually imprisoned in a dead-end seaside resort where all refugees are forced to live. Desperate to escape their nightmarish world, Tanya forges an unusual alliance with amusement arcade manager Alfie.
