CORRECTIONS CLASS

Along with the protagonist Lena, we are wheeled into a Russian corrections class that is made up of teenagers who are either physically or psychologically challenged. Lena ultimately proves she is much more than her myopathy, waging a war against ignorance and prejudice, and learning the hard way that discrimination does not discriminate and cannot be evaded. Based loosely on the novel of the same name by St. Petersburg psychologist Ekaterina Murashova, Corrections Class is an indictment against the stale school system and the hypocrisy of Russian society in general, but also a celebration of youth and its thrills and struggles.