A brilliant example of the flourishing Georgian cinema, the stylish coming-of-age story In Bloom is set in 1992 Tblisi, the first year after independence was established in Georgia, Kazakhstan, and elsewhere in post-Soviet Russia. In this world of long food lines, poverty, lack of electricity and unemployment, 14-year-old girlfriends Natia and Eka leave childhood behind as they ignore societal customs and work to escape their turbulent family lives.