In October 2021, the New York-based filmmaker Julia Loktev flew to Moscow, amid nationwide protests in support of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny . Vladimir Putin 's government had begun cracking down on independent journalists covering the protests, branding them as "foreign agents" — a designation that effectively stigmatized them and forced them to include disclaimers with their work.

Loktev began filming several of these journalists who courageously kept reporting on the abuses of the regime, including her friend Anna Nemzer, a talk-show host for the independent channel TV Rain. Hoping to capture the journalists' ordeal as nimbly and thoroughly as possible, Loktev became a one-person crew, following her subjects around their homes and workplaces and filming on an iPho

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