Ukraine 1929. As Stalin launches the first of his Five Year Plans, a close-knit rural community stands unwittingly in the path of his drive to create a thriving socialist Soviet Union. The outcome is catastrophic.

What begins for the people of the village as an amusingly alien political concept rapidly becomes an unstoppable force for change. Robbed first of their land, then their religion and independence, the whole country soon becomes engulfed by a tragedy that will scar a nation for generations.

Natal'ia Vorozhbit is one of Ukraine's most important emerging writers. Her plays Demons and Galka Motalko have been staged in Moscow and at the National Theatre of Latvia. Galka Motalko has been adapted for the screen and is currently being filmed in Moscow. Her play The Khomenko Family Chronicles was produced at the Royal Court in 2007.

Sasha Dugdale's translations include Black Milk and Plasticine by Vassily Sigarev, Terrorism by the Presnyakov Brothers and The Khomenko Family Chronicles, also by Natal'ia Vorozhbit (all Royal Court).