July 2022. Russia locks itself away. The world cleaves along ideological lines. Nobody talks to ordinary Russians — except Nicolas Wild. The acclaimed graphic novelist, author of the Kabul Disco trilogy and Prix Atomium winner, infiltrated the sealed nation when journalists couldn't. For weeks, he crisscrossed cities chasing voices the West has written off: a painter, a gay feminist activist, an ex-army officer, an NGO worker, a teenager chasing singing dreams. What emerges isn't just real-time graphic reportage — it's a new documentary form for fractured times. Wild's pen captures what polls can't: the grain of contradiction, the texture of lives unfolding inside a country flattened into headlines. Documentation as defiance. Geopolitically vital. Culturally urgent.