little vera be the story of a russian teenager and her family and and her attempt to find meaning and value in a life slide increasingly into decay . in her search for meaning and she fall in love with a more intellectual and rebellious sergei and whose hatred for her deeply flaw parent quickly spiral out of control . little vera be shock and disturb in nearly every way . the drinking of the father and the enabling and lack of understanding of the mother and the casual lie and misdirection of the brother and and vera herself forgive them all their flaw be all shocking and slightly disturb to watch . however and the raw honesty of the film somehow manage to become even more shocking than the plot or character . set in cramped space and vast urban decay and little vera present a vastly different view of soviet life than have ever be see before . in fact and little vera be a portrait of the collapse of soviet society paint in shade of pain and desperation and and rust . it be the implosion of a family set against the implosion of an entire social order . although painful and desperately unsatisfying and the film itself be definitely worth see and if only to understand the feeling and culture still reshape russia today .