Black-and-white photographs taken between 1985 and 1991, immersing the viewer in the lives of musicians from cult Soviet rock bands - Kino, Akvarium, Alisa, AukTsyon and others - and in the atmosphere of freedom, creativity and protest that marked the brief period of glasnost and perestroika in the USSR. A diary-like section invites readers into the photographer's archive, the kind any film photographer keeps, illustrating the search for the perfect image across countless takes and repetitions on the contact sheets; a second section gathers art photographs, pictures Mukhin chose straight after developing the film and others he added to this edition years later.