<p>As the USSR enters its final decade, a group of bored science students in Kiev devise a strategy game in which each 'ruler' competes in Orwellian permanent war. Alerted - by whom? - to the subversive nature and Ukrainian nationalism inherent in the game, the KGB becomes suspicious and pulls them all in for questioning. Though eventually released, they are now marked men whose lives are overrun by wider events - resulting variously in a hellish...