The tagline for the U.S. release of this new documentary – winner of a cinematography award at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival – is “What happens when your enemies become your friends?” Sixteen-year-old Masha Drokova is an ambitious middle-class student from the outskirts of Moscow. After joining the Kremlin-affiliated youth group Nashi, she moves to the very top of the organization. She is rewarded for her dedication with a university scholarship, an apartment, and even a pro-Putin talk show. Everything changes when Drokova becomes acquainted with a group of liberal journalists, including popular anti-Putin reporter Oleg Kashin. At first, she remains devoted to Nashi while pursuing tentative friendships with its left-wing critics — but when Kashin is brutally beaten by "unknown perpetrators," she has a genuine change of heart and decides to take a stand. Several years after the film was made, Masha lives in Moscow and is the co-owner of a public relations firm specializing in social media.