When the turmoil of contemporary Russia was settling in the 90th and everyone's existence was starting to resemble some kind of normality, we were wondering what life was like for the generations of Russians who grew up in the midst of oppression,... suffering through wars and revolutions and who during the culmination of their lives, experienced a new world of freedom and democracy and... turmoil. What was it like to go to School in Moscow in the beginning of the thirties? What happened to the students once they graduated and faced the realities of life and how did they... normal, down-to-earth people... weather the storms of their existence? Marina Goldovskaya gives us the answers in this rare and soft spoken story which at its best conveys the loudest of drama.We join the annual class reunion, a tradition they have kept up since they left School 110 in the Thirties. The filmmaker introduces us to some remarkable people - all former students - who with candor and humor describe their lives and the happenings around them. Through the use of rare newsreel footage, photographs and recent interviews, Marina Goldovskaya chronicles nearly 60 years of Soviet history. The daughter of Lenin's "second man in command," a US state senator from Alaska, a famous sculptor, an East German spy, a test pilot, a nuclear scientist, a historian and an expatriate poet in Manhattan: these are "the children" of Ivan Kuzmich. Whether bred to privilege or persecution, they were equal in the eyes of their mentor. They used lessons learned behind the school doors as a blueprint for survival in a world where the rules changed at the whims of its leaders.