Five young Red Army recruits struggle for survival against the merciless violence that surrounds them on a daily basis. Their only means of saving their dignity is by preserving the humanity and compassion they share for each other.

A tour de force performance by Alison Steadman as the boozy hostess of a wildly unsuccessful middle class dinner party where the husband has the poor taste to have a heart attack on the new carpet.

A pair of terrifically self satisfied, middle class vegetarians who are still high on the love philosophy of the 1960s, have hilarious and appalling things happen to them on a camping trip.