Sometime in 1986, or maybe 1987, in the dead of night, a man parks his motorcycle next to an empty amusement park. He hides from the security guards as he heads to a block of flats and enters one. A guard breaks a window and yells at him to leave. He does, but he's carrying something off the floor. He is Nikolai, married to Anya, the father of Lena, who is a thin and ethereal tramp. In what we later learn is a flashback, we see them packing up to leave, rushed by the authorities, who tell them to leave everything behind. What's going on? Why can't they bring anything? And why would Nikolai return home, some time later, to burglarize a door?